 The 1993 Puffin Modern Classics edition of the novel contains an afterword by Nicholas Tucker , who wrote that stories such as Watership Down " now fit rather uneasily into the modern world of consideration of both sexes " . He contrasted Hazel 's sensitivity to Fiver with the " far more mechanical " attitude of the bucks towards does , who Tucker considers are portrayed as " little more than passive baby @-@ factories " . 
