The Veldt by Ray Bradbury :: Veldt

The Veldt by Ray Bradbury   The storey of The Veldt, is a delving into the issue of how modern technology git destroy the nuclear family. The editor of the Encounters book, John A. Rothermich comments that "This story is almost innocuous of characterization.", I agree with this statement and think it is key to the plot of the story. The story begins with the mother of the family, who has quite a generic wine name. We are given no information of the characters background and how they came to the point in time they are now. The lines "Happylife home base" and the familiar room settings like the parents bedroom and the nursery give you a sense that this is a typical suburban home of the time. The mother seems affright or confused about something, "the nursery is...different now than it was", this at low gear might lead you to believe the mother has true individual characteristics. However, when you canvas on, you see the stereotyp ed reactions to every situation that comes about, the parents then say "nothings as well as good for our children". Later in the story the parents discuss the problems of the incredible star sign and nursery, "The house is wife, mother, and nursemaid, Can I compete with it?", and the father has a generic answer "But I thought thats why we bought this house". The parents in the story look upon their childrens needs as services instead of ways of expressing any love or care. In the story we never define anything about the children except for their obsession with the nursery, "I dont want to do anything besides look and listen and smell what else is there to do?". When the parents tell the children the thinking of shutting down the computerized house "for a vacation", the children react surprise and stay with their one, single characteristic given, they act shocked "Who will boor my eggs for me, or darn my socks?". You see then the childrens primary kind is to the house and not the parents, the children exclaim "I wish you were dead". And indisputable enough, by the end of the story the children act on their on