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Kane VanDyke
ENG104
Literary Criticism
Moral Criticism
If we look at “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury through the lense of moral criticism
our objective is to see what the deeper meaning of the story or the morality is meant to make
the reader feel. We can do this by asking how Bradbury felt about the world he lived in and
taking a look at what the moral meaning of the story is. Is it a story of corruption that teaches
poor behavior? Or one of virtue that encourages the reader to think and act positively? It’s
more of a way to look at literature as a whole instead of just inside the story itself, it’s looking
at how it influences readers. To determine what Bradbury meant for this story to influence we
have to take a look at the moral teachings of the story and his outlook on the society he lives in
and what he feels it’ll look like in the future (because that’s what he writes about).
In All Summer in a Day, he writes about Margot, a child who has experienced things that
