Let us remember that the nursery that the children have
devoted so much time to is telepathically tuned in with the thoughts of the people in
it. Anything they imagine will be depicted on its walls. As we read the story and we see
the hatred that the two children feel towards their parents because of the way in which
they have become completely obsessed by the nursery. The rather disturbing scene of the
veldt with its hungry lions pawing the ground and threatening to kill them in a rather
life-like manner is one manifestation of their anger and hatred. Throughout the story,
George and his wife hear screams that sound rather familiar coming from the nursery.
However, it is only when they themselves are trapped in the nursery and scream that they
realise why they are so familiar:
Mr. and Mrs. Hadley
screamed.
And suddenly they realised why those other
screams had sounded
familiar.
The disturbing
conclusion that these lines point us towards is that Peter and Wendy have spent hours
fantasising over the deaths of their parents, achieving their revenge by imagining them
being killed and eaten in this veldt by the lions. It is only at the end of this story
when there desires become reality.
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