In the short story “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”, written by Stephen Crane shows themes of unconventional love, progress, and the passing of an era.
In the short story, Crane depicts an unconventional love for the particular time period. During the specific time labeled the American Old West individuals married for wealth, status, and social acceptance.This formation was identified as a way for form self preservation and self gain through social acceptability. In the “Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” the story illustrates the internal struggles to break away from social standards and to find love without the application of social interference. Potter wants his wife to see him as a man first. He fear derives from the fact that in the town …show more content…
The invention of the train connected the areas of population to those that were considered rural western outposts. Thus, with this connection civillity was brought to the “old west” that were defined by their brutality. Crane uses trains as a symbol of not only the West’s progression from one side to the other, but the progression of the relationship between Potter and his bride. In the story Crane uses trains to show how life is connecting people from one to another. “ You see, it’s a thousand miles from one end of Texas to the other. The train runs straight across it, and only stops four times.” (Crane 2) “'The great train was rushing forward such steady dignity of motion that a glance from the window seemed simply to prove that the flatlands of Texas were pouring toward the east,' opens the narrator in this short story about progress. Yellow Sky is an isolated Wild West town that makes its own rules. The motion of the train from the city of San Antonio to the small town provides kinesthetic imagery that symbolizes progress and change that is coming to the American frontier whether the citizens are prepared to be tamed or not.”
In the short story, Crane depicts an unconventional love for the particular time period. During the specific time labeled the American Old West individuals married for wealth, status, and social acceptance.This formation was identified as a way for form self preservation and self gain through social acceptability. In the “Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” the story illustrates the internal struggles to break away from social standards and to find love without the application of social interference. Potter wants his wife to see him as a man first. He fear derives from the fact that in the town …show more content…
The invention of the train connected the areas of population to those that were considered rural western outposts. Thus, with this connection civillity was brought to the “old west” that were defined by their brutality. Crane uses trains as a symbol of not only the West’s progression from one side to the other, but the progression of the relationship between Potter and his bride. In the story Crane uses trains to show how life is connecting people from one to another. “ You see, it’s a thousand miles from one end of Texas to the other. The train runs straight across it, and only stops four times.” (Crane 2) “'The great train was rushing forward such steady dignity of motion that a glance from the window seemed simply to prove that the flatlands of Texas were pouring toward the east,' opens the narrator in this short story about progress. Yellow Sky is an isolated Wild West town that makes its own rules. The motion of the train from the city of San Antonio to the small town provides kinesthetic imagery that symbolizes progress and change that is coming to the American frontier whether the citizens are prepared to be tamed or not.”