This study is an attempt to analyze the portrayal of women in DhaabaarnWayyeessaa's selected pro se fiction . A s discussed in the introduction part andrnthe first section of the second chapter, creative writing in Oromo language is t h ernrecent phenome no n . Besides , almost no a s rious study as faras the researcherrnknows , is undertaken in the works under discussion. More specifically , thernportrayal of women in these works has not been touched upon . Therefore ,rnexa mining ho w wome n are portrayed in these selected prose fiction arises fromrnthis fact. In this study , three Oromo prose fiction of Dhaabaa, which a re believedrnto be thematically important are select ed for analysis.rnThis thes is is divided into four chapters. The first chapter deals with thernbackground of the study, the reason why the texts are selected, the objectives ,rnscope and methods of the stud y.rnChapter two discusses two aspects. The first o ne is assessing th e historicalrnoverview of O romo creat ive wri tin g. Second ly , it discusses the theoreticalrnframeworks of femini st lite rary criti c is m from glob al and black co ntexts.rnThe third chapter cri ti ca ll y exa m ines the diverse p rob lems of wo men characte rsrnbased on th e te xts a nd interv ie ws co ndu cted regarding Gumu z wo men . In th ernformer's reg ard , how a sin glecharacter passes thro ugh both positi ve andrnn egative stereotype s is examin ed i.e. a nalyzing in detail of how a femalerncharacter is depicted as victim of m ale violence , object of sex and marriage byrnexchange , home lessness , poverty and at ti mes exe rcis es her own agency inrnchanging her life. Moreover, responses from the intervie w c ondu cted are alsornused to support the evidence from the text. This is done to cross check to whatrnextent the author depicts the female characters in the text Gurraacha Abbayyaarnfor its setting is in Gumuz ethnic group and the author is an Oromo. In the lastrnchapter a brief conclusion based on the analysis is given. Lastly, the appendix,rnwhich presents the full text of the interview conducted with selected Gumuzrnpeople, is attached .rnIn the study most women characters are depicted to be the victims of male violence,rnhomelessness, poverty and subordination. On the other hand, some of these womenrncharacters are revealed as agents that exercise their power, determination and couragerneither to overcome or get rid of the oppression or burden imposed on them.