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Whether in the past or present, this is a country driven by two things: entertainment and capital. Women seem to be most attracted to the entertainment aspect, as demonstrated in Sandra Cisneros’s short story “Woman Hollering Creek” through the telenovelas. Men on the other hand are attracted to the business world and the capital that comes from pure competition and winning, the more the better. This is on display in David Mamet’s play Glengarry Glen Ross. Every vice has a consequence however, as

Social standards may confine individuals from pursuing their own personal interests. Through the relationship between societal standards and individual interests, Sandra Cisneros’ short story, “Woman Hollering Creek,” introduces the roles of men and women in a Hispanic culture. The protagonist, Cleofilas Hernandez, is trapped in an abusive relationship with her newly-wed husband, Juan Pedro. However, Cleofilas tolerates the toxic relationship due to the social norms of her society, which reveals

"BREAD" SANDRA CISNEROS I question whether these two people in the story are having an affair, back together after a divorce, or whatever? Something as simple as bread can lead to that answer. The bread is much like their relationship, actually exactly like it. "We were hungry. We went into a Bakery on Grand Avenue and bought bread. Filled the backseat. The whole car smelled of bread. Big sourdough loaves shaped like a fat ass"(Cisneros 84). It was an affair. They were lusting each other and finally

During a journey a person will come across a crisis or it will be an escape from a struggle or an external conflict. In the two short stories, “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” by Flannery O’Connor and “Women Hollering Creek” by Sandra Cisneros, the protagonists are faced with similar crisis of limitations. On the contrary, “The Swimmer” by John Cheever describes the protagonist to be someone that has no limitations, which led him to abuse his freedom. Although these three tales show differences they

females usually include a submissiveness and dependency that is all too oftentimes easily exploited by men. In this respect, the body of literature analyzed within this paper--Sandra Cisneros' "Bien Pretty" and "Anguiano Religious Articles" in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, as well as Junot Diaz's "Drown" and "Aguantando"--is demonstrative of these truths as an examination of the characterizations and storylines readily demonstrates. However, what is most noteworthy about Cisneros and Diaz's

by her observations of the people in her community and her writings include many different types of communities. In “His Story” and “Woman Hollering Creek” communities of women influence Sandra Cisneros’ characters. Some of the communities help and others hinder. Overall, the communities impact each narrator's sense of identity. Cleofilas in “Woman Hollering Creek” and Sandra in “His Story” are influenced by the women they meet or hear about in their communities. Sandra describes from her father’s

The Milgram experiment was a very famous study on obedience. The research was on everyday people and their compliance towards authority figures orders to inflict pain on others. Participants were instructed to give “fake” electric shocks to students, who are actually actors, learning memory tasks. They were instructed to give out electric shocks to the learners each time they gave a wrong response and would also move a level higher on the shock initiator each additional time an answer was incorrect

Mexican culture – as a separate ethnic body. The women in Sandra Cisneros’ stories are struggling with living up to identities assigned to them, while trying to create their own as women without an ethnic landscape. In Sandra Cisneros’ stories “Woman Hollering Creek: and “Never Marry a Mexican” the role of female identities that

black cultures and subcultures within the United States. Cisneros and Walker make the same poignant statement about the strains of cultural assimilation, with reconciliation of split identities as the goal, in their respective works, 1991’s “Woman Hollering Creek,” and 1973’s “Everyday Use,” yet their unique ethnic perspectives allow them to make it in surprisingly different ways. Cisneros’ family bounced back and forth between Mexico and the United States for most of her youth, which led to firsthand

In this generation, some people do not take relationships seriously. Sandra Cisneros explores the message of women falling in love easily with the wrong men in the stories “One Holy Night,” “Woman hollering Creek” and “Bien Pretty.” These stories show us how women loved men who did not love them back, left and hurt them. The women from these three stories shared what love did to them and what love can do to them anyone. When women actually committed on something or someone, they will love them endlessly