The story “The Yellow Ribbon” by Pete Hamill is about a man coming home to his wife after being in jail for four years. The main characters in the story is Vingo, Martha, and a young girl he’s coming home to see if he is still married. The man Vingo is on a bus that is coming from New York that is going to Fort Lauderdale. He starts to talk to a young girl on the bus after a while of sitting alone and being quiet Vingo tells her a story and mentions that he has been writing to his wife from jail and talks about a yellow ribbon. He tells her about his wife saying that his wife was going to put a yellow handkerchief on the tree which meant that she would accept him back. The young girls told all the young adults on the bus about Vingo’s story
