In "There Will Come Soft Rains," how does the author describe the nursery? What is significant about the way it is decorated?

Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" is about a high-tech house that continues its automated regimen despite the fact the humans who occupied the house have been destroyed in a nuclear attack.

The house basically runs the lives of the humans. It gets them up in the morning. It provides all the meals, washes the dishes, cleans the floors and even deals the cards for Bridge. When the children come home from...

Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" is about a high-tech house that continues its automated regimen despite the fact the humans who occupied the house have been destroyed in a nuclear attack.

The house basically runs the lives of the humans. It gets them up in the morning. It provides all the meals, washes the dishes, cleans the floors and even deals the cards for Bridge. When the children come home from school at four-thirty in the afternoon they are treated to scenes of a fantastical African wilderness with "blue lions, pink antelopes, lilac panthers cavorting in crystal substance" on the video screens of the nursery walls. It is similar to the lethal nursery wall in another Bradbury short story, "The Veldt."

Technology has even taken over the imaginations of the children. There is no reason to actually visit the outdoors or to fantasize, as children like to do. It's all in the walls. There's no need for them to actually be creative. The house provides for their every need.

Bradbury's story is a condemnation of how technology has come to control our lives. Despite the fact the story was published in 1960 it predicts the future quite well. Computers speak to us, robots clean and, of course, 3-D video screens entertain us.