Why use the word RED so much?

In the book, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, there had been a lot of use with symbols or words that had been used repetitively. After reading all these vignettes, I found out that the symbols actually mean something to the story. The narrator Esperanza probably have something behind all the symbols that are used many times. One of the words that I had found a lot with these vignettes is the word red.  

“Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor” (9).

    In the book, the narrator named Esperanza uses red to describe a balloon because she find red as color she likes. She described the balloon to be anchored as if the balloon to symbolize herself. The balloon is RED because since the balloon is her and she is being anchored down which means she is getting pulled down and she can’t go far, she keeps all those anger to herself. All these angers cause her to be red.

    Another use with the word red comes from a quote describing a lady from her neighborhhood.

    “And the boys across the street says she is tall red headed who wear pink tights and green glasses “ ( 71).

    Here it uses the word Red again. I think the use of red shows the way she look at people. Like I said how the red color represents anger, it can be justify that the red referring to the lady means the anger looks that the lady have on herself. When i think about the color of the lady’s hair, it makes me feel that she isn’t really nice or she is a lonely person.

    The use of Red had became really common in the book and almost every page I  turn, I would find it.

    The use of Red here symbolizes sadness and maybe with angryness too. Red had been used a lot because the narrator finds red as memory to her life. It symbolizes sadness because in this quote, Esperanza define the house that is red as something that causes her to be sad.

    “ Before Keeler it was Paulina, but what I remember most is Mango street, sad red house, the house I belong but do not belong to” (110).

    After looking at all the “RED” from the vignettes, it gives me a feeling that it symbolizes anger and sadness throughout the life of Esperanza.