Oct 11, 2008

Woman Hollering Creek | Style

Point of View and Narration
The majority of "Woman Hollering Creek'' is narrated in the third-person omniscient voice. The narrative voice that describes Cleofilas's life in Mexico, her father and brothers, the women friends with whom she gossiped in her town, speaks in longer more lyrical sentences than the narrative voice that describes her life and thoughts in Seguin, Texas. The opening sentence reads: "The day Don Serafra gave Juan Pedro Martinez Sanchez permission to take Cleofilas Enriqueta DeLeon Hernandez as his bride, across her father's threshold, over several miles of...