Season of Disbelief

In "Season of Disbelief," one of the interwoven stories of Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury turns a small summer encounter into a meditation on age and memory. Mrs. Bentley, certain of her own long life, cannot convince a group of neighborhood children that she was once as young as they are.

Their stubborn disbelief presses a gentle, melancholy question: how much of the past can a person hold onto, and what is gained by finally letting it go and living in the present.