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The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky/Marriage

Coming from a small town Potter didn't have a lot of money and to part with it so freely was going against everything he believed. .
             In the writings Jack is referred to as a traitor, criminal and someone who has "gone headlong over all the social hedges". For such an honored man to be associated with such dishonorable terms further proves the magnitude of what this secret marriage will mean to the town's people and how they view Jack Potter. During the trip back to yellow sky Potter was more and more feeling the weight of this deed press down upon his conscious. To live in a small town one develops an intimate relationship with the entire community. A family like bond develops between each citizen of this town and ones business now becomes everyone's. By going to San Antonio and getting married without consulting his "family" Potter feels he has committed a grave injustice. Therefore this act of Marriage causing such a respected man of the law to secretly and shamefully commit such a "crime" further shows how marriage itself is the controlling force in the situation. Why else would Jack Potter otherwise knowingly do harm to his fellow towns people? Especially with the knowledge that if he had gone through all the correct channels to inform the people of Yellow sky, they would, according to page eighty paragraph three, "dream of his prospective arrival with his bride, they would parade the band at the station and escort them amid the cheers and laughing congratulations to his adobe home." To be married and devote ones life to another person is an entirely new concept to Jack and it's causing him to not think in the same manner that he has done so before.
             Finally, with all the changes that marriage has forced upon Jack Potter it is evident that the way his town perceives him will be forever altered. More specifically the way his rival Scratchy Wilson looks at him and how this will affect his entire view of reality.


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