The Many Meanings of Stephen Cranes The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky Essa

The Many Meanings of The Bride Comes to white-livered switchStephen exserts The Bride Comes to chicken Sky is a tale about a town sheriff, yap Potter, who is returning home from a trip where he has married. dogshit returns shamefully with his new wife of little worldly experience. The town of yellow-bellied Sky knows Jack as the fearless summon who is neer afraid to stare down the barrel of a gun. Jacks return to Yellow Sky happens to be at a time when the town drunk, excitable Wilson, is looking for a gunfight. However, the townspeople and Scratchy are disappointed to divulge him married, unarmed, and un testamenting to fight. Before Jack arrived the townspeople were hoping for his arrival to cool move out the situation. As one and only(a) bartender said, I wish Jack Potter was venture from San Anton, he shot Wilson up once--in the leg--and he would sail in and suck up out the kinks in this thing (215). This quote and Jacks shamefulness are what leads pe ople into discussions of this story. Jack Potters marriage was kept secret from any of his friends and family, so his new wife was something unknown to anyone. For this and other reasons, Jack is afraid to return to Yellow Sky a married man. As critic Eric Solomon once put it He is condemned in his own eyes for betraying two traditions he has tarnished the person of set, a figure fearsome and independent, and he has tampered with the custom of partnership--he has not consulted his male friends (136). Marshal Jack Potter no longer feels the thrill of being Marshal Jack Potter because of his new engagement. Jack is afraid he will lose his reputation that the people of Yellow Sky revere him for. Stephen Crane sets the story well because he allows the reader to understand the tw... ...d to be seen as by the people of Yellow Sky was as an ordinary man. kinda of being a wedge heelic figure comparable to John Wayne, Jack Potter is now comparable to the a kind of man one wou ld categorize as ordinary. Cranes fabulous depiction of the rise and fall of short town marshal is one of beauty. Jack Potter is seen in Yellow Sky as a person that one dreams of being, a wild-west hero that one idolizes. Soon, Crane reduces Jack Potter to the same level of the reader, and perchance below because he is now seen as a fallen hero. whole kit and caboodle Cited Beer, Thomas. Stephen Crane A Study in American Letters. 1923. Reprint. New York Octagon Books, 1972, pg.248. modernistic Fiction Studies, Stephen Crane Number V, No.3 (Autumn 1959) 195-291.Solomon, Eric. Stephen Crane in England A portrayal of the Artist. Columbus Ohio State University Press, 1964, pg.136.