Woman Hollering Creek Summary

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In the short story “Woman Hollering Creek” by Sandra Cisneros we are introduced to a woman named Cleófilas Enriqueta DeLeón Hernández, and she takes an interest in telenovelas and they create ideas in her head. These telenovelas influence Cleófilas negatively. She wants a romance like the ones in the telenovelas and a romance like that is unhealthy. She also has this image of what she hopes her life could be, and that is unhealthy because she would never have that. She gets this image about what an ideal man looks like and acts like from these telenovelas but, her husband is nothing like the ideal image and he also abuses her. The romance she dreams of because of these telenovelas is a great love with passion and her life doesn’t exactly fit

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