In the beginning of Woman Hollering Creek, Cleofilas lives an independent lifestyle. She gets to be whoever she wants and do whatever she wants. She has friends and daily activities. Once she is married she loses herself in the marriage and becomes dependent upon him. She no longer goes to the movies, gets milkshakes, or watches soap operas with her friends. Now she sits at home and serves a husband who makes her feel inferior to him and beats her.
Every night she listens to sound of the creek near her house, waiting for her husband to come home. And while she's waiting she thinks about her life back in Mexico she used to have and of her father's love. A parents love for their child is something that will never go away. She realizes this after she is married. "How when a man and woman love each other, sometimes that love sours. But a parent's love for a child, a child's for its parents, is something entirely. " I think this is what makes her ultimately decide to leave Juan Pedro and go back home to her family. She realizes that she wants her child to feel that love that her parents gave her. Her child will never experience that in a home where abuse occurs. I was happy to see her leave her husband and go back to her family in Mexico. Also, I liked how the story ended because you do not know if she ever makes it back home to them. You just have to hope she does or makes it on her own.
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