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Jack Potter
The porter is a black man who waits on Jack Potter and the bride on the Pullman car en route to Yellow Sky. The porter enjoys observing the couple’s obvious unfamiliarity with traveling in luxury and their nervousness as newlyweds. The porter’s unspoken mockery of Potter and the bride reveals the latter two characters’ inexperience with the middle-class married lifestyle they have adopted.
The Porter Quotes in The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
The The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky quotes below are all either spoken by The Porter or refer to The Porter. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 1 Quotes
To the minds of the pair, their surroundings reflected the glory of their marriage that morning in San Antonio. This was the environment of their new estate, and the man's face in particular beamed with an elation that made him appear ridiculous to the negro porter.
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The Porter Character Timeline in The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
The timeline below shows where the character The Porter appears in The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part 1
The black porter observes Potter and the bride in amusement, thinking them “ridiculous” in their wonder and obvious...
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The train arrives at the station in Yellow Sky and the porter announces that Potter’s home is nearby. The porter brushes off Potter’s suit and hands him...
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