Esperanza admires Marin because "she is older and knows lots of things". Marin is worldly, and flaunts a sense of sexuality that the younger girls are only beginning to discover. Marin also has dreams of escaping Mango Street, and appears to the others to have options which will allow her to do that.
Answer: Esperanza and Marin are both friends and Esperanza admires her. They both have dreams to live in big houses but Marin wants to get a house by marrying a man and Esperanza wants to achieve that goal herself.
