In the mockery of a Western type story, Stephen Crane’s “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” has a simple story line with great meaning against inflexibility. With outlandish humor Crane takes the town of Yellow Sky and their marshal Jack Potter through the change of time, proving nothing can stay stagnant. “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” is an ironic comedic literary archetype. The characters of Crane’s story closely resemble one’s found …showed first 75 words of 948 total…

…showed last 75 words of 948 total…of time walked into Yellow Sky. There are obvious references to sarcasm and humor at the misfortune of others in Crane’s story. Each character in this story also represents a mock version of the types of people each represents. “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” is a comedy with the birth of a new society with much resistance from the rigidity of those set in their ways in the small town of Yellow Sky.