Explanation: This second to last scene creates hope in the setting but is taken away at the last second. Mr. Mead has been put into a police car and is being taken to “The Psychiatric Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies.” just for a little night time walk. When he is in the police car they pass houses that are “dark,” which have no life in them at all, they just look like everyone else, almost like clones. We do not understand why no one else is taking fresh air or have no lights on at 8:30 in the evening, but we almost see that Mr. Mead does have some knowledge of why no one else is out or has lights on. When Bradbury writes that Mr. Mead’s house is the only house that has all of its “electric lights brightly lit,” the reader probably
