“The Long Rain” by Ray Bradbury portrays the beauty and ugliness that can be found in people. In the story, four men are walking on Venus, desperately searching for a Sun Dome. A Sun Dome is a place to escape the unending downpour of rain and feel the warmth of the sun. As the men are hiking after their rocket crashes, ugliness is shown throughout their journey. Only one of the men escape insanity taking over the last days of his life. Ugliness takes over the rest of them. Driven insane by the rain, the dark side was shown in three of the men. When one can no longer stand something it literally drives them so insane that they think of taking their life to escape the darkness. This was shown by the suicides committed by Pickard and Simmons.
