"Are you afraid?" "I always thought I would be but I'm not"
This is a conversation from a wife and a husband. They are discussing that the end of the world is that very night and that they are unafraid. The whole world is not going into shock which makes this story very ironic. What we would expect the town to do would be to panic and go into this riot like we would see on T.V or in movies. In all reality I think the people of the world would be calm and act as if nothing was happening. That way there is no stress and we can act as though there is another day. I think it's just better off to not know that the world is ending personally and just let it happen. This ironic story should be how the world should end. Why panic if it will not change anything but justmake things worse off? It just brings up the question about our fears and how far we will take them to feel alive.
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Bradbury, Ray. The Illustrated Man. (New York Times: Bantam Spectra Books, 1951), page 92
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