Pale Horse, Pale Rider
by Katherine Anne Porter
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Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Setting 1 key example

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 Pale Horse, Pale Rider

Setting
Explanation and Analysis:

The setting of Pale Horse, Pale Rider is an unnamed western American city, likely based on Denver, where Porter herself worked as a journalist in 1918. Geographic clues appear obliquely, as in an anecdotal record of Adam and Miranda's weekend museum visits of the past:

On two Sundays they had gone to the geological museum, and had pored in shared fascination over bits of meteors, rock formations, fossilized tusks and trees, Indian arrows, grottoes from the silver and gold lodes.