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Use your imagination to help you describe the Psychiatric Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies that Leonard is sent to. Consider whether...

What a great question! Honestly, you can answer this question in just about any way that you see fit. The only "objective" requirement is that your choices fit the mood of Bradbury's original piece. Focus on making the mood lonely and cold.


I'd really like to say that there are actual humans that work at the mental hospital, but I just don't believe that's how it would be. At the end of the story, Leonard is ordered to get into the police car. The reader and Leonard both learn that the car has no human officer.



As he passed the front window of the car he looked in. As he had expected, there was no one in the front seat, no one in the car at all.



Bradbury has created a world where people do not leave their homes. I don't believe they leave their homes to go to work or to socialize.


Now, on to how the Center is furnished and staffed. Again, it's entirely up to you. In my head, I picture that there are some robots. I believe that the robots are necessary, because some physical interaction with patients might be necessary. That means the robots are going to need some kind of arms, because they might need to restrain patients. The next thing I have in my head is the presence of surveillance cameras and television screens all over the place. I can't imagine that people don't have jobs in this future society, so I still think that there are psychiatrists who would monitor Leonard. I believe that they would do it from their homes, though, which explains the need for surveillance cameras. The doctors would be able to talk to Leonard and ask him questions "face to face" via the television screens. I also imagine the place to be mostly empty and very white.

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