"The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" by
Stephen Crane, was a story that showed the dying of the old west and the
merging of the eastern way of thinking.
In this story The sheriff gets married and comes home to a town that may
or may not accept what he has done.
The sheriff is coming home on a train, not
horses but a train with a wife he did not ask the town permission for. The entire train ride home consists of him
telling his new wife everything about everything on the train which shows his
anxiety in going home to his town. Every
thing on the train symbolizes how the east is coming to the west and how the
west is slowly fading out. Everyone on
the train keeps referring to time as if time were running out for everybody.
The other main character of this story is
Scratchy Wilson. Scratchy is the only
trace of the traditional western bad guy even though his clothes are from a
catalog from new York. Scratchy Has
played a sort of game with the sheriff and feels that this is the way it should
be. The whole town has been a part of
this game as well, reacting to Scratchy as one should react to a typical bad
guy. When the sheriff comes home with
his wife Scratchy threatens to kill the sheriff until he learns that he has
broken the rules and gotten married.
This ends the game and forever changes the way the town interacts with
each other.
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