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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:
Trifles is set in a small Midwestern town in the early twentieth century and was first performed in 1916. The action largely takes place in the kitchen of a rural farmhouse, the home of Minnie and John Wright.
The Wright's home is introduced as an unwelcoming place. Mrs. Hale, the couple's neighbor, states:
“I stayed away because it weren't cheerful [...]. I've never liked this place. Maybe because it's down in a hollow and you don't see it from the road. I dunno what it is but it's a lonesome place and always was.”
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