“The Pedestrian” supports this argument because almost all of the people in the story are doing this except Leonard Mead. What Steinbeck is trying to say in his quote is that people do not want to stand out. So they always stay inside with the people they trust and use electronics so they don’t have to go face to face with others. In “The Pedestrian”, Leonard Mead always walks alone at night, on his journey the author describes Meads walks by writing about the houses, the author writes that “on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard where only the faintest glimmers of firefly lights appeared in flickers behind the windows.” It’s saying that they all stay inside afraid to be out in the real world and just stay with their TVs as entertainment.
