Meanwhile, the author seems to have employed a narrative world, a form of story space often completed by the imagination of readers’ base on real world experience as well as cultural knowledge. Many readers would consider the narrative world as a unified, coherent and materially existing or accessible geographical entity. In “The Fox“, readers would assume that permanent barriers separate the key locations of the major actions and events even though the author hardly mentions such barriers. Since the story refers to both the imaginary and real locations, the phenomenon of narrative world would superimpose the locations or settings specific to the text on the geography of the actual world. However, stories that take place in imaginary landscapes
