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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 Girl, Interrupted
Setting
Explanation and Analysis:
Girl, Interrupted takes place at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts in the late 1960s. Susanna is a patient at the hospital's expensive, exclusive adolescent psych ward. Many notable figures attended the inpatient program at McLean during this time, including Ray Charles, James Taylor and his siblings, and poet Sylvia Plath.
