Everything gets destroyed by the bird attack except the general store (Pomerance 214-216). The citizens in Bodega Bay use a direct, unpresuming, unadorned sort of speech except Melanie and Mitch (Rod Taylor) who use language in a metaphorical, playful and ironic way. Mitch’s ex-girlfriend Annie Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette) even though knows how to use language artfully, but has deliberately placed herself immersed in rural life. Mitch’s mother Lydia (Jessica Tandy) behaves and speaks like a city person retired to the country, comfortably and with directness and simplicity. Difference between city and a village surfaces in the film. In city people are moving fast, busy in their endeavours to amass wealth in the process they exploits, hunts, evades and at times surveils others but village life is a different enterprise, there is a lack of acquisitiveness where people are satiated with what they have and therefore no jitteriness. Hence American small town fascinate Hithcock even in the 1940s but he didn’t wanted his small town characters “too homespun for modern times” and desired instead to make a picture of rural life inflected by the spirit of