Ray Bradbury's The Small Assassin

Even though Ray Bradbury wrote both the Small Assassin episode and short story you notice differences and similarities between the two. In the Small Assassin episode the doctor asked the husband if the child was wanted. In the short story “it was a 'wanted' child, they planned it together and Alice was so happy” so Dave the husband couldn’t understand why all a sudden she disowned her newborn. In the episode, Alice makes it well known that she wanted nothing to do with the baby. In the short story you feel bad for her because she comes off as being fearful of her son. In the short story at supper time Dave “brought the child from the nursery” and sat him “in a newly purchased high chair”. Alice comments about how “he’s not high