“I decided to tell them that some Navajo had kidnapped me, but I was sorry that old grandpa wasn’t alive to hear my story because it was the Yellow Woman stories he liked to tell best.” Throughout the story, “Yellow Woman”, the yellow woman goes through a phase that has her locked out from her real life. The main conflict in the story would be that she becomes the Yellow Woman not knowing it, and denying that she became part of a story. She is confused throughout the whole story because she is being manipulated by a man she had just met. He treats her bad and counters his actions by showing her the beauty of her surrounding and by feeding her.
In the beginning of the story she appears to be waking up with Silva who tells her that she must go with him. At that point she talks about Yellow Woman, and states, “the old stories about the ka’tsina spirit and Yellow woman can’t mean us.” She is clearly denying that she is Yellow Woman and that occurred back in the old days. In a way she......
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