Tone In Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes

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In the novel Something Wicked this Way Comes, the author demonstrates a variety of tones through the character of Miss Foley. Ray Bradbury shows a desperate tone through, “Miss Foley had first noticed, some years ago that her house was crowded with bright shadows of herself” (Bradbury 121), by demonstrating how Miss Foley desires some kind of company. This shows a desperate tone by showing how Miss Foley loathes to become younger in order to change her past by getting married and having children. This desperate tone is used to emphasize how Miss Foley feels companionless and is desperate to go on the carousel. A desperate tone is also emphasized through, “she’s gone, bring her back, she’s gone bring her back” mourned the girl, eyes shut” (159)

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