Quicker Than the Eye | Ideas for Group Discussion

Critics agree that the Bradburyian voice is unique. He uses it to construct ideas of western civilization moored to middle- American settings, ideas of history and memory, and ideas of the emerging self, especially a moral self. The stories in Quicker Than the Eye pursue this agenda with nostalgia, anger, humor, compassion, and whimsy, in a prose that as a result is often not far from being poetry.

1. Are there common elements among the six or seven married couples that are described in as many stories of this collection? What do they suggest about Bradbury's idea of the...

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