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Definition of Setting
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the city of New York, or it can be an imagined... read full definition
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the city of New York, or... read full definition
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the... read full definition
Key Examples in A&P
Setting
Explanation and Analysis:
“A&P” is set inside of an A&P grocery store in a small town north of Boston in the early 1960s. The narrator Sammy—a clerk at the store—describes the setting in the following way:
[O]ur town is five miles from a beach, with a big summer colony out on the Point, but we're right in the middle of town, and the women generally put on a shirt or shorts or something before they get out of the car into the street.
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