Omelas

As I was reading the short story, I started to get the feeling that the child that was locked up was describing our inner and darkest secrets. What we do is lock them away and try not to think about them. When it talks about people seeing the "child", and walking away into the mountains, I feel like it means that they had committed suicide and were headed to heaven, also known as the mountains. Idk it probably has no connection to that, but its just the way that I see this as being.