Ray Bradbury's Embroidery

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Ray Bradbury never seems to doubt his themes, or the way he presents them. From his first publication in the mid-1900’s to now he does not appear to falter. The same holds true for his short stories. In “Embroidery”, Ray Bradbury conveys a grim, bipolar ending to three women using symbolism, emphasis, appeal to emotion, and vivid descriptions. Bradbury’s style is very distinct and noticeable in all his works. He uses an amount of symbolism that does nothing but push his point further. In his short story, he states “[the fire] was plucking at the white embroidery of her flesh…and it at last found her heart, a soft rose sewn with fire, and it burned the fresh embroidered petals, one by delicate one..”(160) The embroidery symbolizes the fragility