In Woman Hollering Creek, by Sandra Cisneros, she explores the world through a young Mexican woman’s eyes, which is battling everything from love, passion, to pain and in the end, freedom. Cleofilas Enriqueta DeLeon Hernandez believed that she would live happily ever after when her father consented to her marriage to Juan Pedro. Her new life, which was supposed to have been full of the passion she had seen on television soap operas, turned sour quickly after much neglect and abuse.
Throughout the story I think that part of Cleofilas’ problem was that she was mainly a product of her background and traditions. I say this because in my eyes Cleofilas only dreamed of "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, m
Although I cannot personally relate to Cleofilas, it is in my opinion that no matter what nationality or race a woman is we all have the same dream of love and acceptance and that makes this story especially touching to me because in my mind no one should have to endure what she had gone through. And I believe that the world would be a better place if there were more people like Felice there to help the lost and confused, truly escape and find themselves. Because although there are many people who like Cleofilas believe that there is no love without pain, I believe that there should be no true love with pain.
ust do, at whatever cost.” I believe that most Mexican women with traditional values may believe that they have no other options available to them other than to stay within an unhappy marriage. Growing up with her father and her six brothers, I believe also contribut