"The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping at the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; it was a rain to drown all rains and the memory of rains. It came by pound and ton, it hacked at the jungle and cut the trees like scissors and shaved the grass and tunneled the soil and molted the bushes. It shrank men's hands into the hands of wrinkled apes; it rained a solid glassy rain, and it never stopped."
This quote is the most powerful quote of the The Long Rain story. It basically summarizes what will be going on in the story. I felt like this symbolized sadness and a lost of hope. It's really depressing. In the story there is a lot of suicide going on and I think the rain symbolizes all the tears of the men that went insane. The men were trying so hard to find the sun dome and when they couldn't they went mad. The rain is also acting like a destroyer in this passage. Harmless and needed as it is, it slowly drives the men crazy. Finding the sun dome is the only hope that the men have in the rain. But we soon learn to find out that the hope it's beating the rain at all. The rain also acts as a memory of all the deaths of the men. The continuation of the rain means that the men will constantly be searching for the sun dome.
Bradbury, Ray. The Illustrated Man. (New York: Bantam Spectra Books, 1951). page 53
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