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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:
“The Drover’s Wife” is set in the late 19th century, toward the tail end of Australia's early British colonial period. The aptly named bushwoman and her family live in the remote Australian "bush," which generally refers to remote, forested areas just outside of the coastal "outback." The story describes the area in which the bushwoman and her family live as being extremely arid, isolated, and thinly populated:
Bush all round. Bush with no horizon, for the country is flat. No ranges in the distance. The bush consists of stunted, rotten native apple trees. No undergrowth. Nothing to relive the eye, save the darker green of a few she-oaks which are sighing above the narrow, almost waterless creek.
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