The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky

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r the homeless and friendless” (Petry 46). “Potter” is also another meaning for God or Christ in numerous Biblical references, for example Isaiah 64:8, “We are the clay, thou art the Potter” (Bassan 14). “Another meaning of his name, Jack Potter is a ‘Jackpot-er’ – the ‘jackpot’ being the bride…”(Petry 46). These various interpretations of Jack Potter’s name add both depth and significance to this character’s development in the story.
Potter’s “recent marriage is significant, not just, as the story suggests, because he is a prominent person in the town, but because it makes him as much of an anomaly in a Western story as he is on the Pullman”(Collins 142). “Potter is no longer the conventional Western hero, the man alone, but a family man, a man with ties and attachments, a part of the community” (Collins 142). Potter’s marriage weighs “upon him like a leaden slab” (Crane 189). Jack Potter is no longer simply the man alone, the marshal of Yellow Sky. “He has, by his marriage, become a complex human being, a husband as well as a marshal and thus he embodies, ...