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Ann Petry’s Like a Winding Sheet, Sandra Cisneros’ Woman Hollering Creek and Leslie Silko’s Ceremony Sorrows of the otherness in Ann Petry’s Like a Winding Sheet, Sandra Cisneros’ Woman Hollering Creek and Leslie Silko’s Ceremony The United States of America is a nation of democracy. Yet, it has not always been a place of freedom and opportunity. The people who do not fit into the mainstream are forced to live in multiple worlds separated by cultural values or language barriers. This world of the majority tears them away from their own native worlds. This separation is very well shown in Ann Petry’s Like a Winding Sheet, Sandra Cisneros’ Woman Hollering Creek and Leslie Silko’s Ceremony. Although the authors are of different origin, their characters have something in common – they all suffer from their isolation. In Ann Petry’s short story Like a Winding Sheet, Johnson is a black male struggling with racism and societal pressures. Johnson faces many challenges throughout the whole story. The reader can feel his anger, frustration and tenseness. One of the first points to mention is the relationship between Johnson and his wife Mae. Although this appears from the outward appearance to be a normal relationship it is hard to ignore the inward emotions that Johnson has been keeping, such as the envious johnson, woman, tayo, united, world, states, man, indian, fact, cleófilas, story, silko, nothing, hollering, creek, about, town, through, sheet, people, husband, even, culture, black, been, after, young, winding, war, salvation, relationship, racism, place, petry, own, land