Unhealable Wound In Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes

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In “Something Wicked This Way Comes” by Ray Bradbury, Charles Halloway has an unhealable wound. Charles Halloway and his unhealable wound can be shown through “That’s Charles William Halloway, thought Will, not grandfather, not far-wandering, ancient uncle, as some might think, but...my father.” (Bradbury 14), “The ice was cold. The emptiness within the ice was warm. He wanted to go away from here. But Charles Halloway stood in the strange night for a long time looking in at the empty shop…” (26), and “The man breathed hard. Eyes tight, Will prayed: hold...there...now…!! The old man gusted out, sucked in, swore in a fierce whisper, then climbed again.” (139).
This shows how Charles’s unhealable wound is his heart and how it’s in bad condition,

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