Symbolism Of The Bones In The 1930's '

In his story, Bradbury uses the changing symbolism of the bones to represent the difficulty of change for Mr. Bittering. Mr. Bittering was reluctant to stay on Mars and wasn’t prepared to deal with the change that moving would bring. Mr. Bittering started to notice subtle differences in his wife, children, and food, especially when he started to “[feel] his bones shifting and shaping, melting like gold (6)”. His bones are a structure that Mr. Bittering relies on to protect and hold him, but they start to adjust. He has trouble adapting to the new norms of the community but began to really reject the idea of Mars when the thing he could always rely on, himself, began to assimilate into Mars. Later, Mr. Bittering starts to accept the change