Yellow Woman | Characters
Silva
The stranger whom the narrator encounters by the riverbank is called Silva. He is a cattle rustler who lives alone in the mountains and does not belong to any tribe that the narrator can ascertain. Silva repeatedly calls the narrator "Yellow Woman,’’ and the narrator begins to identify herself with Yellow woman and Silva with Whirlwind Man, the ka'tsina who takes Yellow Woman to his House in the Sky in the myths. Silva says he can ‘‘see the whole world'' from the prospect before his isolated mountain house, though the narrator cannot even see her home from that...
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