The Visitor
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All Themes Selfishness and Greed Isolation, Loneliness, and Home Meaning and Imagination
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All Characters Saul Williams Leonard Mark Johnson The Man on the Blanket
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The Visitor

by Ray Bradbury
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  • Selfishness and Greed Theme Icon
    Selfishness and Greed
  • Isolation, Loneliness, and Home Theme Icon
    Isolation, Loneliness, and Home
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    Meaning and Imagination
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  • Saul Williams
  • Leonard Mark
  • Johnson
  • The Man on the Blanket
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  • Johnson’s Gun Symbol Icon
    Johnson’s Gun
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In Bradbury’s “The Visitor,” Johnson’s gun symbolizes the destructive nature of selfishness and greed. When five exiled Martian men confront Saul and Leonard Mark in a cave, they argue ferociously over who will get…

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