No Speak English

　　Mamacita is the big mama of the man across the street, third-floor front. Rachel says her name ought to be Mamasota, but I think that's mean.
　　The man saved his money to bring her here. He saved and saved because she was alone with the baby boy in that country. He worked two jobs. He came home late and he left early. Every day.
　　Then one day Mamacita and the baby boy arrived in a yellow taxi. The taxi door opened like a waiter's arm. Out stepped a tiny pink shoe, a foot soft as a rabbit's ear, then the thick ankle, a flutter of hips, fuchsia roses and green perfume. The man had to pull her, the taxicab driver had to push. Push, pull. Push, pull. Poof！
　　All at once she bloomed. Huge, enormous, beautiful to look at, from the salmon-pink feather on the tip of her hat down to the little rosebuds of her toes. I couldn't take my eyes off her tiny shoes.
　　Up, up, up the stairs she went with the baby boy in a blue blanket, the man carrying her suitcases, her lavender hatboxes, a dozen boxes of satin high heels. Then we didn't see her.
　　Somebody said because she's too fat, somebody because of the three flights of stairs, but I believe she doesn't come out because she is afraid to speak English, and maybe this is so since she only knows eight words. She knows to say：He not here for when the landlord comes, No speak English if anybody else comes, and Holy smokes. I don't know where she learned this, but I heard her say it one time and it surprised me.
　　My father says when he came to this country he ate hamandeggs for three months. Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Hamandeggs. That was the only word he knew. He doesn't eat hamandeggs anymore.
　　Whatever her reasons, whether she is fat, or can't climb the stairs, or is afraid of English, she won't come down. She sits all day by the window and plays the Spanish radio show and sings all the homesick songs about her country in a voice that sounds like a seagull.
　　Home. Home. Home is a house in a photograph, a pink house, pink as hollyhocks with lots of startled light. The man paints the walls of the apartment pink, but it's not the same, you know. She still sighs for her pink house, and then I think she cries. I would.
　　Sometimes the man gets disgusted. He starts screaming and you can hear it all the way down the street.
　　Ay, she says, she is sad.
　　Oh, he says. Not again.
　　¿Cuándo, cuándo, cuándo?she asks.
　　¡Ay, caray！We are home. This is home. Here I am and here I stay. Speak English. Speak English. Christ！
　　¡Ay！Mamacita, who does not belong, every once in a while lets out a cry, hysterical, high, as if he had torn the only skinny thread that kept her alive, the only road out to that country.
　　And then to break her heart forever, the baby boy, who has begun to talk, starts to sing the Pepsi commercial he heard on T. V.
　　No speak English, she says to the child who is singing in the language that sounds like tin. No speak English, no speak English, and bubbles into tears. No, no, no, as if she can't believe her ears.

中文版

雨

芒果街上的小屋

頭髮

男孩和女孩

我的名字

貓皇后凱茜【註】

我們的好日子

笑聲

吉爾的舊傢俱買賣

麼麼·奧提茲

路易、他的表姐和表兄

瑪琳

那些人不明白

有一個老女人她有很多孩子不知道怎麼辦

看見老鼠的阿莉西婭

大流士和雲

還有……

小腳之家

米飯三明治

塌跟的舊鞋【註】

髖骨

第一份工

黑暗裡醒來的疲憊的爸爸

生辰不吉

伊倫妮塔、牌、手掌和水

沒有姓的傑拉爾多

埃德娜的鷺鷥兒

田納西的埃爾【註】

塞爾

四棵細瘦的樹

別說英語

在星期二喝可可和木瓜汁的拉菲娜

薩莉

密涅瓦寫詩

閣樓上的流浪者

美麗的和殘酷的

一個聰明人

薩莉說的

猴子花園

紅色小丑

亞麻地氈上的玫瑰

三姐妹

阿莉西婭和我在埃德娜的臺階上交談

一所我自己的房子

芒果有時說再見

作品背景

故事背後的故事

作者的寫作生涯

青芒果之味

英文版

The House on Mango Street

Hairs

Boys&Girls

My Name

Cathy Queen of Cats

Our Good Day

Laughter

Gil's Furniture Bought&Sold

Meme Ortiz

Louie, His Cousin&His Other Cousin

Marin

Those Who Don't

There Was an Old Woman She Had So Many Children She Didn't Know What to Do

Alicia Who Sees Mice

Darius&the Clouds

And Some More

The Family of Litt1e Feet

A Rice Sandwich

Chanclas

Hips

The First Job

Papa Who Wakes Up Tired in the Dark

Born Bad

Elenita, Cards, Palm, Water

Geraldo No Last Name

Edna's Ruthie

The Earl of Tennessee

Sire

Four Skinny Trees

No Speak English

Rafaela Who Drinks Coconut&Papaya Juice on Tuesdays

Sally

Minerva Writes Poems

Bums in the Attic

Beautiful&Cruel

A Smart Cookie

What Sally Said

The Monkey Garden

Red Clowns

Linoleum Roses

The Three Sisters

Alicia&I Talking on Edna's Steps

A House of My Own

Mango Says Goodbye Sometimes

英文版

Mango Says Goodbye Sometimes

A House of My Own

Alicia&I Talking on Edna's Steps

The Three Sisters

Linoleum Roses

Red Clowns

The Monkey Garden

What Sally Said

A Smart Cookie

Beautiful&Cruel

Bums in the Attic

Minerva Writes Poems

Sally

Rafaela Who Drinks Coconut&Papaya Juice on Tuesdays

No Speak English

Four Skinny Trees

Sire

The Earl of Tennessee

Edna's Ruthie

Geraldo No Last Name

Elenita, Cards, Palm, Water

Born Bad

Papa Who Wakes Up Tired in the Dark

The First Job

Hips

Chanclas

A Rice Sandwich

The Family of Litt1e Feet

And Some More

Darius&the Clouds

Alicia Who Sees Mice

There Was an Old Woman She Had So Many Children She Didn't Know What to Do

Those Who Don't

Marin

Louie, His Cousin&His Other Cousin

Meme Ortiz

Gil's Furniture Bought&Sold

Laughter

Our Good Day

Cathy Queen of Cats

My Name

Boys&Girls

Hairs

The House on Mango Street

中文版

青芒果之味

作者的寫作生涯

故事背後的故事

作品背景

芒果有時說再見

一所我自己的房子

阿莉西婭和我在埃德娜的臺階上交談

三姐妹

亞麻地氈上的玫瑰

紅色小丑

猴子花園

薩莉說的

一個聰明人

美麗的和殘酷的

閣樓上的流浪者

密涅瓦寫詩

薩莉

在星期二喝可可和木瓜汁的拉菲娜

別說英語

四棵細瘦的樹

塞爾

田納西的埃爾【註】

埃德娜的鷺鷥兒

沒有姓的傑拉爾多

伊倫妮塔、牌、手掌和水

生辰不吉

黑暗裡醒來的疲憊的爸爸

第一份工

髖骨

塌跟的舊鞋【註】

米飯三明治

小腳之家

還有……

大流士和雲

看見老鼠的阿莉西婭

有一個老女人她有很多孩子不知道怎麼辦

那些人不明白

瑪琳

路易、他的表姐和表兄

麼麼·奧提茲

吉爾的舊傢俱買賣

笑聲

我們的好日子

貓皇后凱茜【註】

我的名字

男孩和女孩

頭髮

芒果街上的小屋

雨