1. Introduction
In Woman Hollering Creek Sandra Cisneros reveals how the immigrant women can help define themselves by looking at old mythic stories.
2. Thesis Statement:
Sandra Cisneros comments on immigrant dynamics in her short story Woman Hollering Creek.
3, Argument:
Sandra Cisneros first published Woman Hollering Creek in her collection of short stories, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. In it, she takes a hard look at the American Southwestern immigrant culture, and how the societal pressures increase level upon level with the greatest weight burden upon the women and children. Cleofilas Enriqueta DeLeon Hernandez believes in the princess myth and longs "passion in its purest crystalline essence. The kind the books and songs and telenovelas describe when one finds, finally, the great love of one's life, and does whatever one can, must do, at whatever cost." . Juan Pedro is her handsome prince who whisks her off to a new existence in “el otro lado,” the other side of the Rio Grande. She also finds herself on the other side of Woman Hollering Creek, named after the mythic La Liorona, the weeping woman. . Juan Pedro it turns out is cruel and abusive and Cleofilas is isolated from the local society because of her cultural background. She always believed that "she would strike back if a man, any man, were to strike her.". However, in reality she needs the help of others to reclaim herself. Luckily, she does meet some self-sufficient women. and learns how to survive as an independent woman.
4, Conclusion
Sandra Cisneros uses her deep cultural insights of the Spanish American community in A Woman Hollering Creek to illustrate how a beloved daughter and sister can be driven to endure spousal abuse when she finds herself marginalized by society without recourse to familial support.
Works Cited
Cisneros, Sandra. Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. 1991.
