"Yellow Woman" is the story of a woman who has run off with a tribesman. We come into the story seeing a woman who is having a love affair with a man. Throughout the story, the woman talks and thinks as if she has been kidnapped; however, it seems as though she wants to be there. We learn that the woman has a husband, mother, and kids at home, and that's when it clicks: she is using the "kidnapping" story as her way of not feeling guilty for running off with another man. We then here the story of the mythical "Yellow Woman". She believes that she is this mythical character in order to further justify what she is doing. I do not believe that she is the yellow woman because she does not show the characteristics of her. I think that she is being cowardly and using the whole "yellow woman" story has her excuse and way to get out of feeling guilty. In the end, when she basically has no other choice but to go back home, he family is going along as if she was never there. I think that this signifies that she was never a great mother to begin with, and that this affair with the Navajo was her chance to get away.
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