One large similarity between many characters in Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles is that they are self centered and don’t tend to consider other’s sides to things. For example, in “The Earth Men” Mr. Xxx would not accept that maybe the people were actually from Earth and both them and himself weren’t actually insane and since he was so set in his own theory he killed the perfectly sane Earth men and himself. Also in the same story Captain Williams and his crew travelled around Mars for pure attention and acknowledgement of their accomplishments. One reason Bradbury might have had had this consistency is to show that acting on your greed typically doesn’t end well. Evidence of this is that in “Ylla” Mr. K’s greed for keeping his wife