What are some examples of personification in the story "The Veldt"?

or the
attribution of human characteristics to
non-human entitiesis largely used within 's short story
"" in order to
provide a sinister tone to the events which take place within the
"HappyLife
Home" that has been purchased by the Hadley family.

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other educator who responded to this question has done quite a thorough job of
outlining
instances of personification within the story, but I will elaborate
in order to provide more
context.

After Lydia and George
first encounter the lions voraciously feeding
on a dead animal in the the
African "veldt" that has been manifested by the nursery,
the couple is faced
with the problem of dealing with their children's obsession with the room.

Lydia has begun to regret purchasing the house, which in meeting her initial desires
of
relieving her of parental duties has also rendered her useless to her
children, as she vocalizes
by saying,

That's just it. I feel like I don't belong
here. The house is wife
and mother now, and nurse for the children. 

The personification of the house as having assumed the marital and

motherly responsibilities is quite disturbing, and foreshadows the couple's
later
demise.

After Lydia and George discover the children
are disobeying their
orders to stay away from the nursery, it is noted
that:

Although their beds tried very
hard, the two adults couldn't be rocked to sleep for
another hour.

Again, we are given a sense of artificial,

human-like comfort being provided by the house.

A psychologist who
comes to
assist George and Lydia decides the couple spoils their children,
which has resulted in
resentment now that nursery access has been blocked.
When observing the room, he
states,

No
wonder there's hatred here. You can feel it
coming out of the sky. Feel that
sun. 

The house i no
longer just
acting. It is also feeling and expressing emotions.

The
sense
that the house is a living thing is once again reaffirmed when Peter
begins screaming,

"Don't let them do
it!" cried Peter to the ceiling, as if
he was talking to the house, the
nursery. "Don't let Father kill
everything."

The children clearly regard the house
as a living, breathing entity,
and the suggestion that to power it down would be to "kill
it" only makes
that concept more alarming. Ultimately, this sense of agency is manifested

when the lions projected by the house kill the parents.