Literary Analysis Essay from a Feminist Perspective When Sandra Cisneros wrote “Women of Hollering Creek,” she reflected on her own life experiences. This is a story told from start to finish from the female point of view. Like the main character, Cleofilas, Cisneros is Mexican-American and the only girl in a family of seven children. Cisneros studied creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and received his MFA in 1978 (238). Growing up, she traveled to Mexico to visit her father's family and Cleofilas escapes into her father's arms later in the story. She has a mixed cultural identity that is relevant in the story by how she uses Mexican and English words together. For example, when describing soap operas, she calls them by the Spanish name telenovela. This story made me think about my own life experiences as I read it. I thought about my parents' divorce, my aunt's extremely abusive marriage of eleven years, and why women, like me, tend to look for that glimmer of hope when it comes to broken relationships. Cleofilas Engriqueta DeLeon Hernandez is the protagonist, the story focuses on her and how she deals with life in a broken and abusive marriage. I feel like she is quite young because Cisneros used the word chores to describe her chores around the house that she would never return to after saying her vows to Juan Pedro Martinez Sanchez. Cisneros wrote: “…dreams of returning to the chores that never end, six good-for-nothing brothers and the complaint of an old man” (246). This passage also shows a stereotype of some Spanish households without a wife or mother, with the oldest woman in the house having to take on this role. Cleofilas must wear more than one... middle of paper...... loudly, Cleofilas is surprised that a woman behaves like this. Cisneros describes Felice as not fitting the stereotypical female role; she is not barefoot and pregnant, but employed and single. She drives a pickup truck and screams like Tarzan every time she goes over the arroyo. I think Felice symbolizes hope, she represents happiness. She doesn't care what a man thinks, at least to the point of allowing someone to lower her self-esteem. Cleofilas needed it; she needed to see a woman screaming! She needed to know that life is not a fairy tale and that you have to experience life, the good and the bad, in order to appreciate it and know what you want, in order to truly be able to reach that fairytale ending of happiness. Cisneros wrote a brilliant story that contains a powerful message, love is the best feeling in the world when you can give it but also receive it..