Setting in short stories is mainly significant. It is important because it reflects in a number of ways the characters and events. The nature of characters, their mood their problems and the significance of what is going on are evident in the locations and surroundings. Especially in short stories author has to express his ideas clearly and principally setting helps us to catch the main idea and plot of the work.
             In twentieth century prose we can figure out two authors of short stories T.Dreiser and W.Faulkner. The description of settings plays great role in the principles of their writing. They paid much attention to settings in order to help reader to understand the work.
             Setting gives us opportunity to accept the atmosphere of the story, the environment in which heroes lived and these conditions have great influence on characters. While choosing the season, time e.t.c. author had a concrete purpose. In both stories we can get a clue for understanding the work form their title. For example "Dry September". Dry means something lifeless, weak. From the very beginning author uses such expressions like "bloody September", "dry grass", "stale pomade stale breath". But on the other hand September means autumn, the season of romance, which evokes melancholic feelings, association of golden fallen leaves. And in the whole we get symbolic meaning of the title. Author wants to show the contrast of the nature and the world of human being. Faulkner wants to mark the tension that takes place till the end of the story which is more important than the acts, and in fact nobody knows what happened in deed. As I've said from the very beginning author uses words which make us feel the tense atmosphere and forecasts that something awful is going to happen: bloody September, stale breath, hell of white man, durn weather, stubborn tone, desert rat. Such expressions show the cruelty of people and even make ...