How to tame a wild tongue

 “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, by Gloria Anzaldua, is a very expressive story about a Mexican American woman who want to preserve her culture. Her main conflict is to keep a form of Spanish, called “Chicano Spanish”, in use. In the short story she says, " for a people who cannot entirely identify with either standard Spanish, or standard English, what recourse is left to them but to create their own language?". She is saying that even though the societies, both Mexican and American want her to do she will not give up. The American Society would like her to speak proper English, while the Mexican Society wishes she would speak proper Spanish. With both pressures oh these societies, she thinks the only solution is to create their own language. That language becomes known as Chicano Mexican, which is basically a mix of everything she has been taught by both societies.