The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Stephen Crane
- First Published: 1898
- Type of Plot: Parody
- Time of Work: About 1900
- Setting: Yellow Sky, Texas
- Principal Characters: Jack Potter, His wife, Scratchy Wilson, A “Drummer” (salesperson) from the East
- Genres: Short fiction, Parody, Western fiction
- Subjects: Marriage, Trains, Frontier or pioneer life, Shooting
- Locales: Yellow Sky, TX
The Story
“The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” concerns the efforts of a town marshal bringing his new bride to the “frontier” town of Yellow Sky, Texas, at a time when the Old West is being slowly but inevitably civilized. At the climax of the story, the stereotypical and seemingly inevitable gunfight, a staple feature of Westerns, is averted, and the reader senses that all such gunplay is a thing of the past, that in fact Stephen Crane is describing the “end of an era.”
Crane's four-part story concerns human beings’ interaction with their environment. (Jack's...
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