Theme Of The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky

This past week we read four stories, My Contraband, The Two Offers, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky and The Darling. The one thing all the stories have in common is that they all have a theme relating to marriage. In the story, My Contraband, Ms. Dane, a war nurse, helps her contraband to find out what happened to his wife, Lucy, who was taken away from him by his brother. While reading The Two Offers, it is a sad story of a woman, Laura Lagrange, who is faced with an ultimatum to get married or remain an old maid for the rest of her life. The title, The Bride comes to Yellow Sky, precludes that the story is about a marriage. Finally, The Darling tells the tale of a woman, Olenka, who marries several times. Each stories have a common theme of marriage, at the same time all of the stories present some kind of internal conflict. In the story, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, Jack Potter struggles with the decision of broadcasting the news of his decision "Frequently he had reflected on the advisability of telling them by telegraph, but a new cowardice had been upon him. He feared to do it." (p.337) He is

At the same time there is major change happening in the East, major change was also coming to the West as well. Symbolically, Jack Potter brings change to Yellow Sky by settling down and getting married, therefore, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky. Also, I think Crane makes that evident in the end of the story when Scratchy approaches Jack with a gun ready for a fight, “I ain’t got a gun because I’ve just come from San Anton’ with my wife. I’m married,” said Potter. “And if I’d thought there was going to be any galoots like you prowling around when I brought my wife home, I’d had a gun, and don’t you forget it.” (p.342) Potter has made a decision that is it time for change, just as the East and now the West is changing, so must