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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 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Setting
Explanation and Analysis:
The play is set in a plantation house on the Mississippi Delta during the summer sometime in the 1950s. Williams gives very specific details about the house's lavish interior, which is slightly odd in comparison to other plantation homes. Context about its past owners influences its current dynamic:
It hasn't changed much since it was occupied by the original owners of the place, Jack Straw and Peter Ochello, a pair of old bachelors who shared this room all their lives together. In other words, the room must evoke some ghosts; it is gently and poetically haunted by a relationship that must have involved a tenderness which was uncommon.
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