Woman Hollering Creek Summary

“Woman Hollering Creek” centers on a young married woman, named Cleófilas and she is the story’s the protagonist. Cleófilas is a Mexican woman goes from living a limited sheltered life in Mexico, to someone who is trapped in her new life in Texas, due to her role as a woman and because of her marriage. In the story "Woman Hollering Creek", it shows the life of a married woman through a character named Cleófilas, the issues of wanting to live in a fantasy. Instead Cleófilas is a character who is married to a man who does not love her and started to abuse her physically and mentally. In Sandra Cisneros short story, “Woman Hollering Creek” it shifts settings from the past in Mexico to the present in Seguin, Texas it somehow provides a before and after …show more content…
The setting in Cleófilas’s new home in Seguin, Texas and her old home in Mexico, both of these settings contribute to the overall significance of the social role of women and the relationship between men and women. Cleofilas leaves her family in Mexico and moves across the border to get married. She thinks her life will be like the romantic Mexican telenovelas she has grown up watching. Instead, her husband is very abusive The author also shows how life can be for Cleófilas when a mom is not present to guide heir, again, Cleófilas's only guide are the television series. The creek, the telenovelas and the border define the mythic spaces given to Cleófilas in her fantasies of escape from her husband. In "Woman Hollering Creek" the setting contributes to the overall symbolism and the meaning of the characters. The author has it so to show how important the fact that Cleófilas's returned to Mexico has set her free. In the hard town of the United States, she had no option but to submit to her husband. However, in the warm town of Mexico, where she once lived, she is able to gain independence as a