Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

by

Sandra Cisneros

The owner of Father & Son’s Taco Palace No. 2, where he employs Trish, his daughter, in “My Tocaya.” The Tocaya narrator states that Trish’s father used to beat her brother—who quit his job at the taco restaurant because of this—and suggests that he may have done the same thing to Trish before she ran away.
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Trish’s Father Character Timeline in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

The timeline below shows where the character Trish’s Father appears in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
My Tocaya
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...the age of thirteen. The narrator wonders if Trish perhaps runs away from home because Trish's father beats her, since this what her brother did; fed up with constantly fighting with his... (full context)