Women
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In Leslie Marmon Silko’s short story, Yellow Woman, and in Susan Seidelman’s film, Desperately Seeking Susan, we are presented with two women who escape from the normal, structured routine of their daily existence and culture. In Yellow Woman, we are given a married Indian woman who makes off with a cattle poacher for some adulterous times in the midst of nature. In Desperately Seeking Susan we are offered a bored suburban housewife, married to a one-dimensional yuppie, who masquerades as Susan, a girl whom she’s read about in the “personals” column. Both women appear to escape the routine of their normal existence by involving themselves in affairs with other men, and by viewing their actions as a means of expanding their roles and choices in a limiting daily environment. In Yellow Woman, when the narrator arrives home, she is content that she has “lived” to a greater extent than her normal existence allows, even if she is sorry her grandfather is not alive to hear of her tale, “I decided to tell them that some Navajo had kidnapped me, but I was sorry that old Grandpa wasn’t alive to hear my story because it was the Yellow Woman stories he liked to tell best” (Marmon Silko 43).The regular role afforded to the narrator at home is a confining one in which her duties and responsibilities have been defined for her through generations of past history in which women were limited in their choices and identity expression via their relations
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page)
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