Life In Ray Bradbury's The Veldt '

In Ray Bradbury’s The Veldt, the Hadleys live a disconnected life. Their entire house is made up of technology. The HappyLife Home, it’s referred to as. “The house which clothed them and fed them and played and sang and was good to them,” (Bradbury 1). It babysits. It bathes. It cooks. It thinks. As far as George and Lydia are concerned, their lives are already being lived for them. The Hadley children, on the other hand, live simply. Not in the sense that they are frugal, or selfless, but there is not much life to live when the house does all their chores and duties for them. They ask for something, and the mechanical house performs it in the blink of an eye. There is never a challenge, never a goal to reach- especially in the home’s nursery,