Additionally, the family owned paintings by Picasso and Matisse, which burn during the fire. McClellan used to listen to poetry on a regular basis, as is evidenced by the scene with the voice reading poetry in the study. The family also had artistic preferences regarded as cultivated or fine by contemporary standards. For example, the fact that the house serves a lot of hearty, standard American foods (such as pancakes, bacon, eggs, and toast) suggests that the McClellans’ were, at least in some ways, a typical middle or upper class family. Readers never meet the McClellans, but they learn more about them based on how the house caters to their needs. The white silhouettes of the McClellan father, mother, son, and daughter appear on the side of the house as a reminder of happier times. This is the family that lived in the house before the nuclear explosion (they are dead before the story begins but referenced throughout).
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