![]() ![]() ![]() ” Omelas could even, she says, have orgies, if that detail would persuade her readers that she is talking about real people, rather than "goody-goody" cartoons. ![]() Their society, moreover, is modern in the sense that it is not a monarchy, though in other ways it looks very different from the world of Le Guin's readers: "They also got on without the stock exchange, the advertisement, the secret police, and the bomb."Įventually, the narrator decides that her readers might be better able to believe in Omelas if they help construct it themselves: "They could perfectly well have central heating, subway trains, washing machines, and all kinds of marvelous devices not yet invented here. The reader, she says, likely assumes that Omelas belongs in a fairy tale or a long-forgotten time, because "all smiles have become archaic." She then challenges the idea that happiness requires simplicity or even stupidity, explaining that the people of Omelas are "not naïve and happy children" but "mature" individuals living full lives. ![]() At this point, the narrator pauses in her description as she realizes the difficulty of describing Omelas’s happiness. ![]()
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