George and Lydia are characterized as parents who are disconnected from their children. Lydia initially realizes that their kid’s nursery obsession has distracted their home while. The wife realized the negative effects of the nursery on their home. She tells the husband to act by shutting off the home entertainment facility. The wife stays at home with the offspring, Peter and Wendy, while the husband is at work; it accounts for the difference in their perception of the nursery’s home effect. Lydia knows the reality of the unhealthiness of the nursery. The husband’s thinking is that he is providing enough for his children, and wants nothing to disrupt it. He does not recognize that the technology is affecting his kid’s social interaction and emotional expression.
George’s perception changes in the story’s course as he now spends more time at the nursery realizing the abnormality of the African scenery. He realizes the nursery has adversely affected his kids and thinks of bringing in a psychiatrist. George noticed his children might be violent and angry because of the technology. He regretted how he had let the nursery control his home, daughter, and son. He wonders with his wife how technology had transgressed their relationship with Peter and Wendy.
The choosing of African veldt affected the children’s relationship and their characterization. Peter’s and Wendy’s relationship with their parents had broken as they were not communicating. The expression of bloody scenes and violence dictates how the daughter and son were mentally unhealthy. The story airs the thematic concerns of the effects technology can have on human beings, especially children. The parents had falsely believed that incorporating excess technology in their kids would make their home a happy one. Instead, technology overtook the interaction of their offspring with their parents as they interacted more with the machines and objects.