The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky | Themes
Twenty-first century readers of "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," like its readers at the turn of the twentieth century, may well have widely differing views on essential themes, depending on how literally or broadly they interpret the actual text. Some may feel that the woman of mystery and her unexpected influence in curbing male passions represents a theme, as would the impact of the industrial and commercial East upon the wild and woolly West, to say nothing of the wondrous transforming power of marriage or the anticipation of a crisis or showdown that must somehow be resolved. Since...
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