In the mockery of a Western type story, Stephen Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" has a simple storyline with great meaning against inflexibility. With outlandish humor Crane takes the town of Yellow Sky and their marshal Jack Potter through the change of time, proving nothing can stay stagnant. "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" is an ironic comedic literary archetype.
             The characters of Crane's story closely resemble ones found in an ironic comedy with no central character. Jack Potter plays the role of the Knight in 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 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 of town, Scratchy takes to the drink and then to the streets with two skillful weapons in hand. The gentleman in the bar scurries 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.
             The Bartender of the Weary Gentleman's saloon has references to being a bard, a storyteller. When the traveling salesman asks questions because he is unfamiliar with the strange practices of the town, the bartender tells him about the routine fights between Porter and Scratchy. Thus fulfilling his role as a storyteller. The setting of "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" has an ironic pattern seen in s...