Myth In Yellow Woman

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In “Yellow Woman”, a woman tells a very descriptive story about waking up at dawn beside a strange man, named Silva, on a riverbank. She follows him an adventure and sees no importance of returning home. This story can be read in two ways: as everything happens as the woman describes or that it is a fantasy that begins after she sees a man near a river. With whichever way the story is read, it can be interpreted very differently. Moreover, if the story were to be read as a myth, then the Yellow Woman and the events within the woman’s story are considered to have intertwined throughout the events, creating her own tale and life with the traditions of the people in the pueblo. I say this because, in part of the story, the woman questions whether