Cisneros has received many awards for her literature, including the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1995 and the Texas Medal of the Arts Award in 2003. Some of her literary works include “Caramelo, My Wicked Wicked Ways, Loose Woman, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories.” (Cisneros) The book Cisneros is most famous for is her book “The House on Mango Street,” and dedicated this book “A las Mujeres,” “To the Women.” (Cisneros) The House on Mango Street is centered on one of Cisneros main themes, feminism, it’s a story about a young Mexican-American girl named Esperanza Cordero and she is experiencing her coming of age.
As well in Woman Hollering Creek, Cisneros expresses feminism through Cleófilas the protagonist is trapped in a constricting, culturally assigned gender role due to her being alone, her violent marriage, and living in poverty. In the story Woman Hollering Creek, Sandra Cisneros discusses the issues of living life as a married woman through a character named Cleófilas; a character that is married to a man who abuses her physically and mentally, Cisneros presents a woman who struggles to prevail over romantic notions of domestic bliss by leaving her husband. Cisneros reveals the way the …show more content…
Cleófilas had this image of what her life would be like from watching the soap operas on TV, and it gave her this impression of life. The man she would marriage would be her way out of a bad situation or to a new life. While living in Mexico, she had family and friends she could turn to once she moves she would not have that anymore. Cisneros puts symbolism in the characters, Cleófilas’ the neighbors on both sides of her, the widowed women, Dolores and Soledad. The Mexican culture reveres women who suffer as Cleófilas admires the tortured souls on the
As well in Woman Hollering Creek, Cisneros expresses feminism through Cleófilas the protagonist is trapped in a constricting, culturally assigned gender role due to her being alone, her violent marriage, and living in poverty. In the story Woman Hollering Creek, Sandra Cisneros discusses the issues of living life as a married woman through a character named Cleófilas; a character that is married to a man who abuses her physically and mentally, Cisneros presents a woman who struggles to prevail over romantic notions of domestic bliss by leaving her husband. Cisneros reveals the way the …show more content…
Cleófilas had this image of what her life would be like from watching the soap operas on TV, and it gave her this impression of life. The man she would marriage would be her way out of a bad situation or to a new life. While living in Mexico, she had family and friends she could turn to once she moves she would not have that anymore. Cisneros puts symbolism in the characters, Cleófilas’ the neighbors on both sides of her, the widowed women, Dolores and Soledad. The Mexican culture reveres women who suffer as Cleófilas admires the tortured souls on the