Ana thinks that the best thing for her to do is get an education and get out of the place she lives in now. She does not want to be like the other ladies around her neighborhood and just simply meet the status quo. In the short story “Woman Hollering Creek”, the character Cleofilas has the opposite mentality as Ana in “Real Women have Curves”. Cleofilas dreams of getting married and leaving her six brothers and father. She imagines that the married life would be much happier and easier like they are in the telenovlas. She believes she is ready for marriage and sees that as a way out of the life she is living. Not a single thought of marriage scares her, she goes into the relationship downright clueless. The only thing she knows how to