By providing this is the
short story, Bradbury demonstrates that technology in the future will be available to do as the want, when they want. The pedestrian is a successful story presenting the attitudes and values of
Ray Bradbury and presenting an image of what the future could end out to be. The story allows the readers to understand and take into account the possible outcomes that could appear in the future. Another character featured in the
short story is the
police car provided with personification. Bradbury portrays his attitude and values through the story also by the use of setting. Bradbury compares the new surrounding in the story with the ones of todays by adding a detailed description of the surrounding, 'firefly light appeared in flickers behind the window'. Showing how people spend their time now inside in front of their televisions, or computers instead of venturing outside. Bradbury used the sentence, in the start of the
short story, 'And on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unlike walking though a graveyard . The car gets described as having a 'radio throat . The Pedestrian is presented in a normal society at night time, when the youth of the area would usually be active. Bradbury also ends the story with the
main character, Mr Mead, being taken to the Psychiatric Centre for Research on
Regressive Tendencies. The title of the research facility symbolises the fact that people are researching how people that are considered normal in today's environment are considered abnormal and are researched upon.
