The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky

Suspense Mounts In Yellow Sky Stephen Crane’s “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” is an example of how an author can incorporate physical, emotional, and intellectual responses of the characters under social pressures. The characters, Jack Potter and Scratchy Wilson, as well as the Negro porter and the drummer provides the reader with enough depth into the lives of each person to provoke a feeling of suspense and uncertainty as each deals with a …

…The animosity of Jack Potter on the train, the drummer in the bar, and drunk Scratchy Wilson all contributed to Cranes effort to keep the reader in suspense by use of metaphors that often contrasted what the reader thought might happen next, but often did not. The suspense factor in this short story was furthered by the emotional, physical, and intellectual responses by the characters that were indeed under pressure in their own unique ways.