Woman Hollering Creek (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Sandra Cisneros
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The twentieth century
- Setting: Mexico and Seguin, Texas
- Principal Characters: Cleófilas, Juan Pedro, Soledad, Felice
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Children, Husbands, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Wives, Abused persons, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, Escapes, Marriage, Poverty or poor people, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Domestic violence, Substance abuse, Violence, Women, Small-town life, Mexican Americans, Southwest, Tragedy, Catholics or Catholic Church, Mexico or Mexicans, Central America or Central Americans, Latin America or Latin Americans, Texas
- Locales: Mexico, Texas
The Story
“Woman Hollering Creek” is the powerful narration of the destruction of one woman's dreams told through her consciousness from the days just before her ill-fated marriage to Juan Pedro until the day she escapes his cheating, bullying behavior to return to Mexico. The primary action takes place in Seguin, Texas, a town of nasty gossips, dust, and despair, where Cleófilas gradually learns that the community life she cherished before moving north no longer exists. This town is built so that wives have to depend on husbands for a ride or stay home. There is nothing a...
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