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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:
Physical place is subordinate to the narrator's mental landscape in "The Mark on the Wall." Much of the 'setting' is actually generated by the narrator's imagination and Woolf's use of imagery, as in the quote below:
They are not thoughts directly praising oneself; that is the beauty of them; they are thoughts like this;
'And then I came into the room. They were discussing botany. I said how I'd seen a flower growing on a dust heap on the site of an old house in Kingsway.'
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