Question

In "The Pedestrian," what idea most clearly indicates that Mead is an unusual person in his society? A. His visits to his neighbors' houses at night B. His choice of walking for enjoyment C. His wearing of tennis shoes D. His dislike for dogs

Answer 1

Answer:     A. His visits to his neighbors' houses at night.        -APEX

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

B. His choice of walking for enjoyment

Explanation:

Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Pedestrian” is set in AD 2053. The protagonist, Leonard Mead, takes a night stroll every night (at 8 pm), as he has done for the past 10 years. During all these years he had never encountered another pedestrian. The night in which the story is set is no different, except that a lone police car (robotic by implication) stops him and takes him in because he was walking for enjoyment, “for air, and to see, and just to walk,” a concept which didn’t make any sense to the car, as it was a very unusual thing to do at that time. The streets were completely deserted with everyone inside their ‘tomb-like’ houses that Mead passed by, giving references of TV channels that they must be watching.

Walking for enjoyment was in fact so unusual that the police car takes Mead to the “Psychiatric Center for Research on Regressive tendencies.” It was not only an unusual, but a regressive behaviour, which made Mead an unusual person in his society.