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Situational Irony
Key Examples in The Veldt
Style
Explanation and Analysis:
Bradbury’s writing style in “The Veldt” features figurative and poetic narratorial descriptions alongside long swaths of conversational dialogue between characters. The following passage—which comes near the beginning of the story as George and Lydia enter the nursery and see the virtual reality African veldt for the first time—captures the lyrical nature of Bradbury’s prose:
And here were the lions now, fifteen feet away, so real, so feverishly and startlingly real that you could feel the prickling fur on your hand, and your mouth was stuffed with the dusty upholstery smell of their heated pelts, and the yellow of them was in your eyes like the yellow of an exquisite French tapestry, the yellows of lions and summer grass, and the sound of the matted lion lungs exhaling on the silent noontide, and the smell of meat from the panting, dripping mouths.
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