Woman Hollering Creek Stereotypes

What are some stereotypes that women challenge in the book? Woman Hollering creek by Sandra Cisneros a great Latina writer that focuses on independent woman that always get their heart broken and never find a man that could love them. Also some stereotype that they challenge are romance,language,and jobs/roles. These are some main ideas that are going to be explained and more focused on, because that's what she mostly talks about. In the book Woman Hollering Creek most of her stories talk about the same concept but their are some stories that don’t. The following stories are the ones that are going to be explained on this essay it's going to be “My Tocaya”, ”Bien Pretty” and “Never marry a mexican”.

The first main idea mostly focuses on a specific stereotype that they challenged on the book which is romance.One supporting detail that was on the book Woman Hollering creek. Is on the story “Never Marry a Mexican” it says “I’m amphibious. I’m a person who doesn't belong
One detail that supports my main idea is on a story “Bien pretty” and it says “I mean I’m an artist I need a models. Sometimes. To model, you know. For a painting. I thought you would be good. Because you have such a wonderful face.” This is another stereotype that they challenge they say that women don’t work that they are just at home cooking and taking care of kids that that's their expectation but in this book this lady is an artist and that her job to draw and the writer is challenging that stereotype by saying what her job was. Another supporting detail that was on the book was on the story “Bien pretty” clemencia doesn't just want to be to be a cooking lady at home with kids she is looking for other roles that she could do. This shows that woman not only want those type of jobs but they want something different this shows that they are