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Jealousy In Harrison Bergeron And All Summer In Day

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Has there ever been a time when someone is extremely jealous, and that person does something wrong that they would never do? It has happened many times. In the stories “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and “All Summer in Day” by Ray Bradbury, jealousy is shown. “Harrison Bergeron” is about the future, when people are all equal, and now nobody is jealous. People can’t be jealous, they can’t compete, so they can’t be jealous, all because they are all equal. “All Summer in a Day” is about the future as well; people are living on Venus as well as

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