'The Conflict In The Veldt'

In the story “The Veldt” By Ray Bradbury, technology is more advanced, and is way over used by the two main characters in this short story. They use their nursery, which is in their very technologically oriented house, way too much and it becomes very deadly. Setting up the conflict is shown by personification, symbolism, and short sentences. In various ways conflict is shown with these craft decision.
A thing in “The Veldt” that sets up conflict or a problem is that their house is becoming the kids parents and it's all they care about now. “The house is wife and mother now, and nursemaid.” The parents want to stop this problem because it is tearing their relationship apart, which becomes a conflict in the story. The house is becoming more than just the kids parents. The house is becoming everyone's maid, which causes the people who live in the house to do nothing at all. This is personification that sets up the conflict in the story.
Symbolism in “The Veldt” that sets up the conflict, is that the nursery symbolizes our love for electronics, where the lions symbolize the people that try to take the things we love away from us. “I wish you were dead.” This is showing that turning off the nursery affects the kids so much and makes them super angry. This relates to setting up the conflict because in this story the parents wanted to turn off
“The house was full of dead bodies, it seemed. It felt like a mechanical cemetery. So silent. None of the humming hidden energy of machines waiting to function at the tap of a button.” The short sentence stands for the conflict because it is describing the conflict. This sets up the conflict because it is showing how bad turning off the house for a little bit changes everything, dramatically. The kids take this the hardest, and don't accept and do whatever they have to to keep the house on. They don't understand that the nursery is actually slowly tearing them