Ray Bradbury's 'The Women'

In the story “The Women” by Ray Bradbury, the central theme is that ‘Death is inevitable’ even if you are warned. The story consists of a man and his wife enjoying a vacation on the beach, but the man does not realize that this vacation will lead to his death. Bradbury intentionally mentions that the man is on the beach with “…a woman in a black bathing suit…” (Bradbury 104). Furthermore, since Bradbury utilizes the color black to describe the woman’s bathing suit, this foreshadows the death of her husband because the color black symbolizes death. Additionally, the story takes place in autumn since “It was the end of the season. September. Things were shutting down…” (Bradbury 104). In other words, Bradbury uses fall because that season symbolizes