The role of strong female roles in literature is both frightening to some and enlightening to others. Although times have changed, Sandra Cisneros' stories about Mexican-American women provide a cultural divide within that is reflected in recent times. The cultural themes in Cisneros' stories highlight the struggle of women identifying with Mexican-American heritage and the struggle to live up to Mexican culture – as a separate ethnic body. The women in Sandra Cisneros' stories struggle to live up to their assigned identities as they try to create their own as women without an ethnic landscape. In Sandra Cisneros' short stories “Woman Hollering Creek: and “Never Marry a Mexican” the role of female identities that are in conflict is highlighted, in the sense that they must straddle two worlds at once as Mexican-American women. The author, Sandra Cisneros, grew up as a Mexican-American woman in Chicago, Illinois. His mother was Mexican-American and his father was Mexican; clearly highlights the difference between the two cultures. She graduated from Loyola University in Chicago and from there enrolled in a writers' workshop at the University of Iowa. Bad Boys, a book of poems, was published by a small press specializing in Latin literature in 1980. It received little attention. But his first collection of fiction, House on Mango Street, was published in 1984 and caught the attention of the New York publishing establishment. “The play is organized, like Mango Street, around the central female protagonist, whose opinions about her extended family help to clarify her own character” (Perkins, 390). The story "Woman Hollering Creek" comes from her 1991 book of short stories titled Woman Hollering Creek and Othe...... middle of paper ...... explains what they mean as far as social and cultural implications; but it is not difficult to understand the strength of the two female protagonists and the double standards of the men. Sandra Cisnero's stories center on the idea that Mexican-American women have difficulty dividing themselves between two separate worlds, countries and cultures. Traditionally, Mexican and Chicano women are quiet, obedient and non-sexual. American women are extroverted, they try their best to be different from traditional standards and have freedom in their sexual life. In the stories “Woman Hollering Creek” and “Never Marry a Mexican,” this separation is explored in the manner of strong female characters. Analysis shows that the struggle for a Mexican-American woman is real in modern times, but can be overcome with a strong female identity – as a woman not defined by her ethnic origin..