A Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
“My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real” (Flaubert). Gustave Flaubert’s quote described the idea of naturalism, which one’s family background, social conditions and environment help shape one’s character. In the late nineteenth century, naturalism became the main literary movement that many writers, including Stephen Crane, produced works conveying the idea of environmental determination of human characteristics. Crane’s famous short story, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, is still famous over a hundred years after its publication date because of its naturalistic context.
Stephen Crane, born in Newark, New Jersey in 1871, was the youngest child of Mary Helen Peck Crane and the Methodist minister, Jonathan …show more content…
When he and his bride arrived at Yellow Sky, they ran into Scratchy Wilson, who was drunk and wanted a gun-fight with Potter. However, after learning Potter is married, Wilson called off the duel and left. In the part where the author used descriptive language “maroon-colored flannel shirt”, Crane showed the progress of Eastern civilization in the West through Wilson. Crane also showed realism when he mentioned Potter’s wife appeared unattractive. Why would a young beautiful lady who lived in the East want to marry an middle-aged guy and move to the …show more content…
Crane used the train as a vehicle to bring Eastern civilization. In the part of the story where Potter thought it was a crime to start a marriage, but the others did not share the same thought serves as an evidence of realism. “It suggests the disparity between an individual's perception of reality and reality as it actually exists” (Stephen Crane). The purpose of this short story is to describe “the passing away of the old and emergence of the new” which refers to the railroad and the marriage.
Stephen Crane’s The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky covers both realism and naturalism that caused him to become a famous writer in the era and known by the future generation. The writings of this important figure in realism, naturalism time period became the foundation of American
“My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real” (Flaubert). Gustave Flaubert’s quote described the idea of naturalism, which one’s family background, social conditions and environment help shape one’s character. In the late nineteenth century, naturalism became the main literary movement that many writers, including Stephen Crane, produced works conveying the idea of environmental determination of human characteristics. Crane’s famous short story, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, is still famous over a hundred years after its publication date because of its naturalistic context.
Stephen Crane, born in Newark, New Jersey in 1871, was the youngest child of Mary Helen Peck Crane and the Methodist minister, Jonathan …show more content…
When he and his bride arrived at Yellow Sky, they ran into Scratchy Wilson, who was drunk and wanted a gun-fight with Potter. However, after learning Potter is married, Wilson called off the duel and left. In the part where the author used descriptive language “maroon-colored flannel shirt”, Crane showed the progress of Eastern civilization in the West through Wilson. Crane also showed realism when he mentioned Potter’s wife appeared unattractive. Why would a young beautiful lady who lived in the East want to marry an middle-aged guy and move to the …show more content…
Crane used the train as a vehicle to bring Eastern civilization. In the part of the story where Potter thought it was a crime to start a marriage, but the others did not share the same thought serves as an evidence of realism. “It suggests the disparity between an individual's perception of reality and reality as it actually exists” (Stephen Crane). The purpose of this short story is to describe “the passing away of the old and emergence of the new” which refers to the railroad and the marriage.
Stephen Crane’s The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky covers both realism and naturalism that caused him to become a famous writer in the era and known by the future generation. The writings of this important figure in realism, naturalism time period became the foundation of American