In Weep Woman By Maria Yoloruna

Chicano/as and Mexican have the similar culture and yet it is different. In the short story, it explores the culture difference on ‘freedom’ within Mexicans and Chicanas based on the characters P.O.V, archetype, and the ironic name title.

Alma Luz Villanueva is the author of, In Weeping Woman: La Llorona and Other Stories. It has the short story, “Free Woman”, it’s about four Chicanas doctors name: Maria, Marta, Yolanda, and Consuelo. They are in a Mexico resort for a job convention. While the four are having fun in the beach, the Mexicans men and waitresses are judging them for their lifestyle. One of the doctors asked her friends, their “fantasy of a perfect orgasm”, which each of them does. One by one, the Chicanas reveal their answers

The author used archetype by the Mexicans calling: Maria, Marta, Yolanda, and Consuelo a ‘gringas’ multiple times, to emphasize the way they treat them behind their back. The four women are Mexican- American also known as Chicanas. And yet they consider them to be ‘gringas’ a Spanish word for a female English-speaker, anyone who is from the United States. For example, in the beginning, the Mexican men wanted to get the females attention, but over time they were discussing about them. One of them said, “they’re all gringas, no matter what color they are” (71). Meaning, that although they are Mexican-American, the Mexicans will only see the American part of their heritage. Even the bus boy thought the doctors to be ‘gringas’ too based on their Spanish speaking skills. He thinks that their Spanish is, “forced, self-conscious, too perfect, like from the books” (72). This implies that he believes that their Spanish is not natural like they only learned it for their job. As in Blood Lines Myth Indigenism and Chicana/o literature, Sheila Marie Contreras wrote an analyze piece on “Free Woman”. It agrees the fact that the racial identity on the, “Chicanas’ gringa statue is assigned based on their behavior” (159). The Mexicans from the short story will see the doctors as

Consuelo is a single Chicana woman who did not get married at any age and she knows exactly what she wants. As in page 69, she sent back her drink until the bartender gets it right. She was the only one for the bartender to give her a nickname, La Doctora Puta. It means, The Bitch Doctor in English. Since she was demanding with her drink and he did not like her attitude. The author did not describe her fantasy because she is going to achieve it. It was implying that she was going to do her fantasy because she wanted to have intercourse with a virgin and the bus boy was interest in her. He secretly declares to her, that he likes her and then asked if she likes him which she reply, “tonight” (79). The reason why she was different from her friends is because she was the one who is truly a free