Leslie Marmon Silko's Yellow Woman

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Yellow Woman by Leslie Marmon Silko is about a young, married Pueblo Indian woman’s brief romantic adventure with a mysterious maverick Navajo stranger named Silva. The woman is seeking an escape from her boring and unsatisfactory family life by having an affair with the mysterious, exciting stranger. This short story is told in the first person of view by a young woman who remains unnamed throughout the story. You are able to draw this conclusion by Leslie Marmon Silko’s use of words such as “I” and “my” in the story. The readers are only allowed to see what the narrator thinks and her experiences throughout the story.

The short story takes place in the late twentieth century along a river, on mountain trails, in Silva’s mountain, and in
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