Although the narrator’s grandfather is deceased at the time of the narration, he occupies an important space in the text and in her mind. The narrator thinks about how her grandfather loved to tell Yellow Woman stories. Her memory of the stories seems to function like a prophecy, and because her grandfather was the source of this information, he remains a powerful force in her life despite his absence. At the end of the text, when she returns home, the narrator wishes her grandfather were around to hear her story—a Yellow Woman story—because he would have understood in a way that the rest of her family would not.
The Narrator’s Grandfather Quotes in Yellow Woman
The Yellow Woman quotes below are all either spoken by The Narrator’s Grandfather or refer to The Narrator’s Grandfather. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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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.
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The Narrator’s Grandfather Quotes in Yellow Woman
The Yellow Woman quotes below are all either spoken by The Narrator’s Grandfather or refer to The Narrator’s Grandfather. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part Four
Quotes
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.
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