Life_Isn’t_Always_What_It_Seems

Life Isn’t Always What It Seems Almost every woman’s dream is to marry a handsome, loving, and caring man to live a life of happiness and success with. That is the how most television shows depict life as. In reality life isn’t always what it seems to be as on television. That is clearly shown in the protagonist in Sandra Cisneros’s “Woman Hollering Creek.” Cleofilas’ dream of romance and happiness was destroyed in the face of poverty, alcoholism, and abuse. The story “ is an extraordinary example of a text that considers the shifting terrains of power” (Brady).She learns that nothing in life is guaranteed, but the trials and tribulations along the way are there for a reason. The hardships that she experienced influenced her to be a strong and independent woman. Cleofilas idolized the favorite telenovelas, You or No One, and the way of life portray with the characters in the show. Watching that so much gives her the image of an ideal life. Her fantasies encourage her to try to live out her own life like that when she dyes her hair like Lucia Mendez. The show itself symbolizes the life Cleofilas thought she was going to life, thought, first, cleofilas, live, end, woman, way, television, saw, man, always, wasn’t, time, telenovelas, never, marriage, independent, home, going, creek, abuse, things, symbolizes, strong, strike, show, reality, poverty, pain, out, once, nice, moved, love