<P> These tales focus on the social role of women, and their relationships with the men and other women in their lives . The majority of the characters are stereotypes: men embody machismo while women are naïve and generally weak . Cisneros focuses on three feminine clichés: the passive virgin, sinful seductress, and traitorous mother . Not properly belonging to either Mexico or America, the Chicana protagonists earnestly search for their identity, only to discover abuse and shattered dreams . Apart from focusing on these issues of struggling females, Cisneros simultaneously develops the readers' sensitivity towards the lives of immigrants . </P> <P> The vignettes are quite short on average; the longest is 29 pages, while the shortest is fewer than five paragraphs . Despite such limited space, Cisneros experiments with daring poetic prose in her storytelling; for example, each story presents a new character with a distinct literary voice and style . Such writing has earned her the title of an accomplished Chicana poet, with the added credentials of her published books of poetry My Wicked Wicked Ways (1987) and Loose Woman (1994). </P> <P> From early on, a bond ran throughout Cisneros's family as a result of being separated from their homeland and having to live as Mexican - Americans in Chicago . Cisneros was born into a family of seven children and was often singled out as she was the only daughter . Despite the abundance of sibling playmates, Cisneros always felt lonely as a child, thus prompting her to begin creating stories to vary her daily routine . </P> <P> After many years of writing, Cisneros used Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories to explore the failed relationships of the female characters via their reactions to the men in their lives . This feminine focus in the stories may reflect Cisneros's own views on relationships, as she does not appear to have a strong connection to any male figures in her life: "For her, men seem to be a utility that a woman turns on and off as required ." As the writing is from a Mexican - American immigrant's point of view, this feminism contends not only with the stereotype of gender, but of class and race as well . Cisneros "creates stories, not explanations or analyses or arguments", which describe her feminist views with "more provisional, personal, emotional, and intuitive forms of narrative". </P>

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