Ann Eliza Bleecker

In Stephen Crane’s “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky,” the classic western showdown comes to an anticlimatic end when the town marshal fails to produce a gun and the gunslinger walks away (not into a blazing sunset). With the disappointing showdown Crane illustrates the flat ending of the west when the town marshal’s bride comes unexpectedly to Yellow Sky. “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” demonstrates the complex dynamic of the West passing away as the East penetrates and fills the open desert plain