There Will Come Soft Rains Mood

Many people often wonder if anything really lasts forever. In Ray Bradbury's There Will Come Soft Rains, Bradbury reflects on the questionable structure of permanence. Though things can be built to last forever, invulnerable, should they be? The house, or the main character in Bradbury's story, spirals on unaware of the destruction of humanity. Bradbury’s use of setting, imagery, suspense, and tone instill a mood of fear and loneliness in the reader. There Will Come Soft Rains takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland that was once bustling with life, or at least the audience can assume these things. The narrator describes “empty cards at silent tables” (Bradbury, 2), insinuating that the house was used as a place for get-togethers of …show more content…
A model of this occurs when the narrator describes the nursery; “animals took shape: yellow giraffes, blue lions, pink antelopes, lilac panthers cavorting in crystal substance. The walls were glass. They looked out upon color and fantasy. Hidden films clocked though the well-oiled sprockets, and the walls lived. The nursery floor was woven to resemble a crisp cereal meadow. Over this ran aluminum roaches and iron crickets, and in the hot still air butterflies of delicate red tissue wavered among the sharp aroma of animal spoors! There was the sound like a great matted yellow hive of bees within a dark bellows, the lazy bumble of a purring lion. And there was the patter of okapi feet and the murmur of a fresh jungle rain, like other hoofs falling upon the summer-starched grass. Now the walls dissolved into distances of parched weed, mile on mile, and warm endless sky. The animals drew away into thorn brakes and water holes.It was the children's hour.” (Bradbury, 2). This example of Bradbury’s vivid imagery ties the reader to the story by making it seem more real, and overall, more alive. The audience becomes emotionally connected to the story, and they feel as though they could be in the nursery observing this scene