Analysis Of For All Tuesday Travelers By Sandra Cisneros

The poem was part of a Sandra Cisneros’s book called, My Wicked Wicked Ways, collection of poems that has the themes of Chicanas’ sexuality, culture, and history. It is a narrative because it paints a picture in my head even though it has a few words. For All Tuesday Travelers is an empowerment poem because it tells a story of a woman acting against the traditional role of being woman by using allegory, mood, and alliteration.
Each line has a meaning that helps convey the message of empowerment and embracing sexuality. For example, in the first line, “I am the middle-of-the week wife.” (Cisnero,77). She is not a ‘traditional’ wife because a ‘traditional’ wife’s role is to overall take care her husband and her family every day; not just for one day. Unless she is a marry woman, who acts like a traditional wife for one day while the rest of the week, she spends her free time alone. However, she proclaims herself the “middle-of-the week wife”. This means that she is a mistress of a married man and she comes over in the middle of the week such on Tuesdays or even Wednesday to adultery. She calls

In this line, it implies that she leaves in the morning. Once again, it is confirming that their relationship is a one-night stand. In the tenth line, “without the labor.”. She means that she doesn’t have to put any effort to either fall in love or to have sex with this man because he is a regular and it is a meaningless fling.
The eleventh line is, “It is a good life.” (Cisnero,77). She enjoys her life even though sleep around with men. The twelfth line is, “I would not trade it” (Cisnero,77). The, “it” in this line would either be her job of being an escort, a lavish prostitute or a mistress who is with a married man. In society, a woman who has casual sex or has a job like that would be consider looking down on. That is why she would not trade her improper life for another ‘normal’ life because she relishes her