The True Identity of a Women

In an ironic lead in the novel, the storyteller attempts to define her aver identity by going off with a cattle rustler, but in some odd sort she is trying to gain aid and an identity by traveling a r asidee convertible to the chicken Wo spell of her grandfather's stories, a woman who mysteriously went by superstar day and then returned home with twin children. However, the teller understands that she can never be Yellow woman because he is of a different time, place and space than the woman whose exploits engage become legend among her people, "I go out see someone, at long last I will see someone, and then I will be certain that he is only a man-some man from nearby-and I will be sure that I am not Yellow Woman. Because she is from out of tome past and I get laid now and I've been to school and there be highways and pickup trucks that Yellow Woman never saw" (Marmon Silko 34). However, despite her differences to Yellow Woman, the narrator attempts to expand her identity and experiences in a similar musical mode by going off with a man who is not her husband.

In Desperately Seeking Susan, we are presented with the story of Roberta Glass, a suburban New Jersey housewife who is married in an unsatisfying relationship to a yuppie hot tub salesman who has microscopic understanding of his wife's need for any role bigger than the one his income and ideologies provide for her. We see he is one-dimensional in his conceit patterns, mainly ones centered around materialism. We s

Thus, we see both women in the film and short story try to become free or break out of their routine existence by becoming others they secretly respect for their adventure, vexation and freedom.

Susan: Yeah, well, fortunately for everyone, I'm here and I'm thinking.

Seidleman, S. Desperately Seeking Susan. huntsman Pictures, 1985.

Susan: Between you and me, how much do you really know round Roberta? Why didn't you tell me she read the someoneals? We could have settled this yesterday.

In the narrator's public in Yellow Woman, her one chance for turmoil and entertainment comes from the stories of Yellow Woman via her grandfather. She tries to become Yellow Woman in an effort to add some enrichment and excitement to her own limited edgement. Likewise, Roberta tries to become Susan in order to add excitement, passion and adventure to her own valium-popping, materialistic culture. Like the narrator in Yellow Woman, there are few people in her own environment to whom Roberta can turn for understanding. The one person supposed to offer her the most understanding, her husband Gray, offers her the least. The film is merged in a unique way to illustrate this, because of the way we find out about Roberta's boring and limited world is through the one character she sees as adventurous and free, Susan. When Susan and Gary are trying to find Roberta, the following exchange highlights Roberta's isolated environ
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