Character Analysis of Jack Potter in "Bride Commes to Yellow Sun"

By Lee A. Zito Jack Potter is the town Marshall. He represents the brave and honorable men of the old west. The story is surrounded around how Potter himself interacts and reacts to his surroundings. He's fair and also good with a gun, since he never took advantage over Scratchy Wilson. We learn that Potter is very self-conscious of the change from the gun toting, lonely Marshall, to married man. We also find Potter is …

…a gun to Scratchy and the reader is that it is the end of a time. Now Potter is a married man, one that is dedicated to his wife. Only the reader knows that Jack feels that he has made a mistake by getting married. He feels that he has betrayed his "duty to his friends," the members of an "innocent and unsuspecting community." He carries this guilt with him as the new married Marshall.