What aspects of contemporary family life do the Happylife Home and the nursery satirize? What exactly have the Hadleys purchased for their...

To
satirize is to mock and ridicule, to make fun of. , in this unnerving story, makes fun of
contemporary society's obsession with comfort and the desire to achieve it. Modern day society
has developed an obsession with everything that will seemingly make life easier. It has created
and developed machines that do what, in the past, were seen as regular, everyday chores, such as
washing up, cleaning the floors and, most importantly, raising children.

Many
of these elementary tasks are now being done by machines that are electronically controlled.
Tasks can be completed with the push of a button. Even parenting has found a substitute;
modern-day children probably spend more time playing with electronic devices than they do with
their parents. The machine has become a surrogate parent.

Bradbury
exaggerates these issues in his story. George and Lydia Hadley have bought a house and a nursery
that do everything. They and their children, Wendy and Peter, don't have to lift a
finger....