Women Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros is a story of a young Hispanic girl called Cleofilas, having married a complete stranger, Juan Pedro, and had to leave her father and brothers to live a new life in a new country, away from home. The whole story is written in a manner that nothing is said directly, we observe the life of Cleofilas from behind some kind of a curtain, but still it is vivid that her life is not a one to admire. The author skillfully describes pain, despair, disappointment, unfaithfulness, which overfill the life of a poor woman.
Juan Pedro is not a husband to wish for. He abuses his wife, and it is obvious that he is not faithful either, as there were “evenings when Juan Pedro did not come home” (p. 200). He gets a habit to hit his wife and “the first time she had been so surprise she didn’t cry out or try to defend herself” (p. 222), she did not even try to defend herself, which shows that there was nothing she could do, it shows her disempowerment…show more content… Near her house is a creek called Women Hollering. Cleofilas comes there often and thinks of her life, love, house and everything else. She turns to the memories on her past, and regrets that she has no mother to ask for advice or just to speak to. That place becomes the one where her soul can holler, both with pain and anger, but only there, where nobody sees. The creek is not named specially for Cleofalis, it has been there for a long time, and it will stay there for even longer. And there have been and will be many Cleofilases to come and to think and to holler, but again come back home and continue a life of an ordinary wife obedient and submitted. “The stream sometimes only a muddy puddle in the summer, though now in the springtime, because of rains, a good-size alive thing, a thing with a voice all its own, all day and all night calling in its high, silver voice. Is it La Llorona, the weeping woman?” (p.