In the novel Women Hollering Creek, the author Sandra Cisneros writes about the growth of a women's independence from dreams to reality. With being married off, to the first time he slapped her, and finally the end of it all, this novel discusses the difficulties of what being a woman can bring.

Sandra Cisneros writes about Cleofilas, a young teenager, she visions life like the one shown on the telenovelas. She dreamed of doing her hair like the women on the novelas and having the same makeup. She wanted to have money in her marriage and be able to wear the finest clothes. Cleofilas has been waiting for passion and love things that both come with marriage but when the time came this was something she had not received.

Therefore, when Cleofilas's father Don Serafin, gave her away to a man named …show more content…
Cleofila describes her husband as not very tall and his faced scared from acne defiantly not someone from the telenovelas. When Cleofila and her new husband moved across the border she wasn’t the only women who felt alone. Even though she knew she wasn’t the only one in this situation she was too scared to speak of it. Cleofila had always thought if she were to get mistreated by a man she would have the strength to fight back, yet when he struck her the first time she stood frozen. She didn’t cry or yell instead she was lost in the fact she didn’t understand why she did not react. Cleofilas quickly learned the right time to react, especially when out with her husband. She spoke briefly with head gesture, smiles and slight laughter. In the novel the author makes Cleofilas appear numb, from all the abuse and neglect she has experience she can't even find reason