Which of these following are short stories that involve spoiled children?
I’ve only read two of the five: “The Veldt” and “The Possibility of Evil”. “The Veldt” (which I think I first read under the title “The World the Children Made”) is definitely about spoiled children: the parents, who’ve spent a fortune to build a house with an interactive nursery where whatever their children imagine actually happens–“nothing’s too good for our children”, they say proudly–find that their children now consider them expendable. The story ends with the implication that the children have had their parents eaten by lions in the nursery, transformed by their imaginations into an African plain (or veldt). “The Possibility of Evil” is about a spinster who writes poison-pen letters to her neighbors. She says cruel things to some of them about their children, but I can’t remember whether “spoiling” is one of her criticisms: if so, it’s a minor part of the story. Two teenagers find her out and retaliate, but again, I would not characterize these young people as “spoiled”–their
