The setting is symbolic because as it progresses and certain events occur, the setting adjusts to the happenings and reflects the mood at the time, helping the reader to further understand what is being conveyed in the story. When the narrator and Eleonora fell in love, the narrator makes observations such as “Strange, brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burn out upon the trees where no flowers had been known before. The tints of the green carpet deep[en]; and when, one by one, the white daisies shr[i]nk away, there sprang up in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel” (146). As the characters fell more in love and grew happier and happier, nature did as well. But, soon after, Eleonora dies and the narrator’s feelings of sadness are
