Analysis Of The House

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The American dream is viewed in today’s world as working to make the newest technology and make life as easy as possible. This house embodies that ideal; however, it has turned into the American Nightmare. There is no work needed to be put in by this family to keep the house running. The house is the “human” working. It has taken over the American Dream. The home feels like a human would, but continues its tasks even after a revelation of emptiness. This building continues throughout the story to show its humanity and its willingness to survive.
Bradbury continuously hints at the human characteristic throughout the story, creating this “human-like” house that is still a machine. The house is literally alive; it has eyes, “memory tapes glided under electric eyes.” “the house had kept it’s peace. How carefully it had inquired, ‘Who goes there?’… bordered on mechanical paranoia.” All of these are personifications of the house and how it acts as a human would if left all alone. …show more content…

The natural world does not care for the house as the humans did and there is nothing there for the house to accomplish. “It was raining outside.” (Bradbury 1)This rain suggests a sadness and gloom that has fallen over the house from the loss of its “gods”. This happened at eight o’clock, and when ten o’clock rolls around “The sun came out from behind the rain.” The sun represents the shedding of light on the dark world and bringing forth of new information. It is here in the story that one learns that the family is actually dead and not simply on a trip. “The gentle sprinkler rain filled the garden with falling light.” This falling light epitomizes the end of an era of not only humans but the end of the life of this house. This sentence, along with the poem by Sara Teasdale later in the story, foreshadow the end outcome of this story; the death of all man-made

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