In this short story Ray Bradbury takes us into the future where the Hadley family purchased a Happylife home. This home is an automated house that does everything residences. Tasks like making dinner, tieing your shoe and bathing are all done for you at the hands of the home. With the house doing all the daily tasks Lydia Hadley starts to feel useless “I feel like I don't belong here. The house is the wife and mother now, and the nursemaid.”, once the Hadley family moved into the automated house all the power the parents once held slipped away. Since the home takes care of all responsibilities the it gained all the power. This power struggle is also proved by the Hadleys children, Wendy and Peter. The two no longer view their parents as authority
