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Sandra Cisneros provides a thorough excavation into the psychology of a mistress in her short story "Never Love A Mexican." This prolonged look into the pathology involved in constantly being a secondary, and never the primary, woman in a lover's life, leads the reader to some fairly scary conclusions about what that sort of thing must be like. What is most interesting about this narrative is the fact that Cisneros depicts both the suffering of the wife of her lover, as well as that of the mistress, Clemencia, in this tale. A careful evaluation of the distress of all parties involved, including that inherently incurred by the male lover, Drew, demonstrates that the distress is most profound in the mistress.
While Cisneros alludes to this fact throughout the majority of this short story, this particular finding because the most obvious in the conclusion of the tale in which Clemencia yields to a form of craziness that...
Cisneros seems to project her own life into the character of Cleofilas as Cisneros herself is stated by Doyle (1996) to have entered into a discussion of the difficulties that she herself had known as a Mexican-American "...always straddling the two countries...but not belong to either culture...trying to define some middle ground." (Pillar, 1990; as cited in Doyle, 1996) This divide of cultures, religion and gender are a type of
Woman Hollering Creek The real-life Woman Hollering Creek is a small waterway located in Central Texas. It is supposed that the name is a loose translation of the Spanish La Llorana or "weeping woman." This is a folktale of the area wherein a woman drowns her children in order to be with the man that she loves and yet he rejects her. Distraught over all she has lost, the woman (most
The novel opens seven years after Gabo's mother, Ximena, was murdered by coyotes -- or paid traffickers -- during an attempt to cross the border. Her mutilated body was found, her organs gone -- sold most likely. Because of the fear surrounding this border town and the lure of the other side, all of the characters become consumed with finding Rafa. These people are neglected and abused. Like other fiction
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