Woman Hollering Creek
... In Sandra Cisneros’s “Woman Hollering Creek”, we see how this predictability in life can often function as a false sense of security when things do not turn out in the way as Cleofilas, a young Mexican girl, imagined would be. Cleofilas have always envisioned the love between a man and a woman to be great, powerful and passionate. ... Being a Mexican woman who stays in a small town in Mexico, Cleofilas, as with all other Mexican women, thinks marrying a Mexican man with US citizenship is a ‘good catch’. ... Or to the girlfriend’s house to watch the latest telenovela episode and try to copy the way the woman comb their hair, wear their make up. ... Or the creek. ... Therefore, in examining Cleofilas’s life in Sandra Cisneros’s “Woman Hollering Creek”, we can see that her beliefs and perceptions of love, marriage and identity did not turned out the way she thought it would.