Human Comedy In the Human Comedy by William Saroyan, Mrs. Macauley, an intelligent mother of four in Ithaca, California, states, “If a man has not wept at the world’s pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world.”(p.131) People are different in many ways but how people deal with pain gives the world an insight to the character of that person and who they truly are inside. In a section of the Human Comedy, Mrs. Macauley shares her view of people, pity, and pain. When pain is present in some people, they bottle it up on the inside and let it fester.