The concept of human free will seems to be underlying force behind evil, casting doubt in humanity. The narrator describes in detail the city and its inhabitants, from its moss covered cobblestones, their brightly painted houses with red roofs, and its inhabitants bright and joyful nature, the reader begins to see the city’s happiness as a good thing. It simulates a fairy tale style of life where everyone has achieved happiness. It is a perfect world with a terrible secret. What are we willing to pay for our happiness? Are the rights of the collective more significant than the rights of an individual? Can we as a society justify a small evil for a greater cause? Readers must face this questions as they venture further into Omelas as they are
