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[[image:Yellow.jpg|thumb|Yellow Woman]]
{{Infobox short story
==Factual Information==
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"Yellow Woman" is a [[short story]] written by Leslie Marmon Silko, originally published in the 1974 anthology, The Man to Send Rain Clouds: Contemporary Stories by American Indians, edited by Kenneth Rosen. [2]
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"Yellow Woman" is a [[short story]] by Leslie Marmon Silko, originally published in the 1974 anthology ''The Man to Send Rain Clouds: Contemporary Stories by American Indians''.
 
==Summary==
An unnamed woman has a sexual encounter with a man that lasts several days despite her having a husband and child.


==Characters==
==Characters==
===Yellow Woman===
===Yellow Woman===
Yellow Woman is a female who leaves her family to have a brief sexual encounter with a Navajo man. Yellow Woman is not her real name.
Yellow Woman is a female who leaves her family to have a brief sexual encounter with a Navajo man. Yellow Woman is not her real name.
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===The Rancher===
===The Rancher===
The Rancher is a fat white man who has a sour smell to him. He and his people have been looking for Silva for a long time because he's a thief who rustles their cattle for the meat.
The Rancher is a fat white man who has a sour smell to him. He and his people have been looking for Silva for a long time because he's a thief who rustles their cattle for the meat.
==Plot==
The [[plot]] of "Yellow Woman" is about a woman who meets a Navajo man named Silva while out walking one day. She becomes intrigued by this man and leaves her family behind to be with him. She has sexual intercourse with him all the while she is confused about why she would do something so wrong. [1]


==Themes==
==Themes==
A few [[themes]] of this story are [[myth]], heritage, and desire. The desire comes from how she feels when she is with him. The [[myth]] is about how she wants to live out the stories she has heard from her grandfather about a woman called Yellow Woman.
• Traditional native values versus contemporary American values.
 
* The roles of wife and mother at odds with desire.


==Works Cited==
==Works Cited==