Ambiguity In Leslie Silko's Yellow Woman

In “Yellow Woman” by Leslie Silko, the story is suggested to be mythic in origin, and not about adultery. The narrator is not given a name which adds to the ambiguity of the story and raises the possibility of the unnamed narrator being Yellow Woman. The setting and time are ambiguous when Silva (or Whirlwind Man) and the narrator are in the mountains, highways, pick-up trucks, and Jell-O is all mentioned. Making it clear that it is the twentieth century and the unnamed narrator is living in modern times. Yet, when Silva and the narrator are in the mountains all these things disappear making the flow of time ambiguous. The unnamed narrator herself wonders if what is happening is part of the legends of “the ka’tsina spirit” and refuses to acknowledge it till the very end of the story. The narrator not having a name, the ambiguous setting and time, and the narrator herself wondering if she is the Yellow Woman is evidence to disprove that “Yellow Woman” is about adultery.
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The time the story is based in is the twentieth century which is apparent by the mentioning of highways, pick-up trucks, and Jell-O. While narrator and Silva are in the mountains or on the trails all evidence of modern times are gone. Yet, when the unnamed narrator returns home she sees, “…pale blue and full of thin clouds and fading vapor trails left by jets.” Silva and the unnamed narrator live in the twentieth century but as they travel the Arizona Mountains in this border region they are able to exist in the past and present. The Yellow Woman tale is from “time immemorial”, yet the narrator is experiencing the tale of the Yellow Woman. In the mountains where Silva (Whirlwind Man) lives time is frozen and it appears as though Silva and the narrator are in the past. While they are in the mountains it is like they are Whirlwind Man and Yellow Woman for that