The Martian Chronicle: Favorite Quotation

Favorite Quotation: "The four bodies lay in the sun. Mr. Xxx lay where he felt.The rocket reclined on the little sunny hill and didn't vanish."

When the astronants landed on the planet Mars, they were definite that the Martians would be as surprised and amused as they are for confronting the living creature from another planet. The reaction, however, was not what the Earth men expected; the Martians believed that those men were seeing hallucinations, and sent men to asylum. The Earth men, eager to prove that they are not insane and they are REALLY from the Earth, showed the psychiatrist the rocket they had riden to Mars. Despite all these evident proofs -- different appearance of Eartlings, rocket and other objects inside it -- the psychiatrist NEVER considered the possibility that the Earth men might be telling the truth; instead, he praised the Earth men that they have a beautiful insanity that conglomerates visual, auditory, sensual, and even labial fantasy. Even when the psychatrist found out that the astronants' dead bodies do not disappear, he did not admit that thoes men were "real" -- he believed that he himself was "hallucinated", "contaminated", and committed a suicide.

My favorite quotation, "The four bodies lay in the sun. Mr. Xxx lay where he felt. The rocket reclined on the little sunny hill and didn't vanish," shows the contrast between the four bodies/the rocket and Mr. Xxx. This contrast emphasizes the Martian doctor's firm belief on hallucinations -- in other words, a foolishly close-mindness.