Edgar Branch identified an archetypal continuity which is both literary and cultural that linked J.D. Salinger's 'A Catcher in the Rye' to Mark Twain's 'Huckleberry Finn.' Sandra Cisneros's 'A House on Mango Street' forms the third chain in the link. Speranza, her protagonist, parallels the growth of both Holden and Huck, from innocence to knowledge, all the while keeping a vulnerability which, paradoxically is a source of strength. The final parallelism is authorial. All three writers enter their respective novels through the narration, defining their respective novel's ultimate meaning.