Setting In Literature

The importance of setting in American Literature The setting is both the time and geographic location within a narrative or within a work of fiction. A literary element, the setting helps initiate the main backdrop and mood for a story. Setting in a story is important for your story and immerses readers in your fictional world. In the following essay the setting of three different stories will be discussed. “A Rose for Emily,” “To build a Fire,” and “The Raven” they have great examples of how setting can be used to imagine the story. In “A Rose for Emily,” by William Faulkner the setting is a creepy old house in Jefferson, Mississippi.the author created his own mississippi County, Yoknapatawpha, as the setting for much of his fiction stories. Emily's family was very wealthy, so her father built a house right before he passed away. As Emily got older she fell ill, she got worse over time so did her house she was left from her father. Her house started falling apart just as she was with her life. “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe is a creepy story with dreary colors and weather. Without the setting in “The Raven” Poe’s story wouldn't be near as creepy or …show more content…
London also uses irony to illustrate and stress his existential theme. To preserve the existential theme of man being alone in an uncaring cosmos, the reader must not be confused by the presence of the dog as a traveling companion to the man; the reader must instead see the dog for what it really is—a further extension of the apathetic and uncaring environment. London uses imagery with such skill that the reader can almost feel the severe and deadly cold of the environment and can almost hear the “sharp, explosive crackle” when the man’s spit would freeze in