An Untradtional Comic Western: A Bride Comes to Yellow Sky

An Untraditional Comic Western The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky is a fictitious four-part story written by Stephen Crane. This parody’s story line deals with a town marshal arriving with his new bride into his western frontier home, meeting a drunk on a rampage, and narrowly escaping an inevitable gun fight. This “western” story however is not as a whole a traditional western genre, but instead can be seen as a humorous and comic …

…The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky there are some similarities to the traditional westerns. There is the traditional setting and theme, as well as the cliché of the quick draw sheriff and his antagonist. This story does a wonderful job of combining traditional westerns with humor and comedy. The major norms are demolished; the gunfight is abolished, the antagonist backs down from an inevitable fight, and the protagonist sheriff returns home an unarmed married man.