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Does the setting of a story influence your evaluation of events that will happen in it? Where or when it takes place can create a mood and also give some fareshadowing. Paying close attention to these details can help the reader pick out unnoticed details. Setting can also create a psychological state. One can find examples of this in stories written by Ernest Hemingway and Edgar Allen Poe. The setting in Ernest Hemingway's story "The End of Something" reveals a mood in the beginning and foreshadows as well. The narrator tells us about a lumbering town called Hortons Bay and how after one year everything was packed up and moved out. " The one-story bunk houses, the eating house, the company store, the mill offices, and the big mill itself stood deserted in the acres of sawdust that covered the swampy meadow by the shore of the bay". This sentence alone seems to suggest a negative mood and foreshadow a negative event that will take place as well. The story leads then to, "ten years later there was nothing of the mill left except the broken white limestone of its foundations showing through the swampy second growth," this line help
In Ernest Hemingway's story "The Three-Day Blow" the setting reveals details which foreshadow and contain underlying meanings to the character's feelings. "The fruit had been picked and the fall wind blew through the bare trees," suggests Nick's feelings of bareness now that he and Marjorie are no longer together, and the damage done will remain. "It was the first of the autumn storms," foreshadows Nick might have storms or rough times ahead of him. "All of a sudden everything was over," Nick said. "I don't know why it was. I couldn't help it. Just like when the three-day blows come now and rip all the leaves off the trees". ZZNick feels that his relationship with Marjorie ended just as the season ended. Later in the story one can visualize the setting affecting another evaluation he or she may have about Nick. "Outside now the Marge business was no longer so tragic. It was not even very important. The wind blew everything like that away". So just as the wind blew away the l! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In conclusion, the setting reveals details about a mood or it will foreshadow
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