The characters of Crane's story closely resemble one's found in an ironic comedy with no central character. Jack Potter plays the role of the Knight to the town of Yellow Sky. The bartender at the Weary Gentlemen's saloon mentions that Potter is "the town marshal" and "he goes out and fights Scratchy when he gets on one of these tears." However Jack's knightly standing is not so appreciated by the fellows on the train back from San Antonio. Jack is actually pushed and "bullied" around yet he does not recognize any of it. Jack Potter is too much in love with his new wife, but not too much that he doesn't realize what Yellow Sky is going to think about him not getting their approval to marry. This shows Jack as not only an ironic knight but also a young lover commonly found in literary comedies.

Scratchy Wilson seems to be the dragon. With the knight out o

f town, Scratchy takes to the drink and then to the streets with two skillful weapons in hand. The gentleman in the bar scurry with fear that Scratchy will fill the saloon with his carefully aimed bullets. The kingdom of Yellow Sky is fearful of Scratchy as he looms in the streets calling for a fight with his "fire" in hand.

There are obvious references to sarcasm and humor at the misfortune of others in Crane's story. Each character in this story also represents a mock version of the types of people each represents. "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" is a comedy with the birth of a new society with much resistance from the rigidity of those set in their ways in the small town of Yellow Sky.

The social inclusion may be even better illustrated in the Weary Gentleman's saloon. The drummers viewpoint as a foreigner to the area shows how rigidly Yellow Sky has fixed itself in the image of a Western without explicitly saying so to show the refusal to change with the time. When the drummer questions the bartender he replies that Jack Potter is the "town marshal [and] he goes out and fights Scratchy when he gets on one of these tears." Showing a patterned event, the social inclusion of Yellow Sky.

The setting of "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" has an ironic pattern seen in some literary comedy pieces. Commonly encountered in this piece is the verbal irony. The narrator gives

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