Women Hollering Creek
This wonderfully written story by Sandra Cisneros details the life of Cleofilas, the main character. Cleofilas deals with several problems during her childhood and continuing on into her marriage. The story never describes any significant relationship with her mother and the negative effects of this can be clearly seen throughout Cisneros' piece of work. Cleofilas instead turns to the television, particularly the telenovelas, for a female role model in her life. After Cleofilas was married, her husband became terribly abusive towards her. Because Cleofilas had no real female role model in her life, she did not know any better and allowed herself to remain in an abusive relationship.
"She had always said she would strike back if a man, any man, were to strike her. The telenovelas were Cleofilas' guide for learning about love. Abusing women is wrong in all cases. She fantasized of finding her true love, "the great love of one's life" (44), just like the beautiful models always did. Cleofilas was unable to fully realize this and waited too long to leave her husband. She had never imagined that he would ever do such a thing. Although often in the telenovelas, hearts were broken and betrayal was common.
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