Why does Margot act the way she does? For example, why doesn't she play with her classmates and why does she react so strongly to the shower?

Author Ray Bradbury created the character Margot in "All Summer in a Day" as one who is different from the other children living on Venus. Though the story is written in the voice of a narrator, much of Margot's thinking is described in terms such as her description of the children as people who could not remember anything but rain and more rain for years on end. The rest of the children are foreign to...

Author Ray Bradbury created the character Margot in "All Summer in a Day" as one who is different from the other children living on Venus. Though the story is written in the voice of a narrator, much of Margot's thinking is described in terms such as her description of the children as people who could not remember anything but rain and more rain for years on end. The rest of the children are foreign to her, of a different culture. Margot has only lived on Venus for five years, she remembers living on Earth. Margot remembers the sun shining, a sight the other children have never seen. The rest of the children have lived on Venus their entire lives.

The other children sense that Margot is different. The constant sound of the rain showers bothers Margot but to the other children, since it is all that they know, the sound is normal. For Margot though, the constant rain showers are a reminder of the lack of sun, the sun that she remembers and will never regularly see again since on Venus the sun shines so rarely and so briefly.

Margot remembers the sun and warmth and light. She attempts to describe it to the children, which only dissociates herself from them further. Whether they are jealous or just sense that she is too different than they are and are afraid of her, the other children treat Margot with hostility and this causes her to draw away from them.