"The Woman Who Loved a Bear" has a frame structure. In literary terms aframe is a story that provides a context for another story. In the case of "The Woman Who Loved a Bear," the frame consists of the interaction between the storyteller and his grandson. Yolen says that she hopes that the grandson will give her audience a modern perspective, a way for the audience to observe and understand the events in an old tale. Having the grandfather tell the story also personalizes it. Rather than having an objective point of view, the story has a biased narrator who is trying to convey to his audience cultural values that are important to him. The effect of this on Yolen's audience may be to pay closer attention than usual to the story in an effort to figure out why the grandfather regards it as important.