There Will Come Soft Rains

by Ray Bradbury

There Will Come Soft Rains: Style 1 key example

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Explanation and Analysis:

“There Will Come Soft Rains” begins with succinct prose that gradually builds the narrative tension to its climax. As the narrator describes a morning in the McClellans' house, most sentences are hardly more than a few words long. This syntactic simplicity initially lulls the reader into a sense of innocent comfort:

The fire burned on the stone hearth and the cigar hearth and the cigar fell away into a mound of quiet ash on its tray. The empty chairs faced each other between the silent walls, and the music played.