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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
Setting
Explanation and Analysis:
“At the ‘Cadian Ball” is set in late 19th-century Louisiana in an Acadian and Creole community. The Acadian people were a French-speaking ethnic group from eastern Canada and the northeastern United States who migrated south to Louisiana in the 17th and 18th centuries after being forced off their land, leading to the formation of Cajun communities. (The word “Cajun” originally comes from the term “Acadian.”) Creole—in the way that Chopin is using it in the story—refers to the descendants of the French and Spanish people who originally settled directly in Louisiana.
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