The winds of revelation swirl within her mind, gliding through leaves of thought, and skimming the ground otherwise known as contemplation. Myop, the prime character in the short story The Flowers, is surrounded by nature, rebirth, as well as death itself. What would nature be without a definition, just earth? To literature, this evolutionary sculpted work of creation is known as a setting. Alice Walker's protagonist Myop symbolizes visualization; even her name is a slight clue to the mystery of this flat character. Walker uses the Myop as eyes into this story, "op" directly symbolizing optical. The story The Flowers itself is very visual, which is why the setting is so detrimental. The way the surroundings interact with Myop unswervingly shapes and guides the entire direction of the story. In the story The Flowers by Alice Walker, the literary element of Setting is used to exemplify and unite the other fictional elements; through Walker's use of symbolism and creative visualization, they clearly demonstrate the theme of the story.
             Ten-year-old Myop is independent. This concept is only unearthed through the text indirectly. This idea illuminates the importance of setting, essentially because the narrator does not explore the mind of the protagonist herself. "Turning her back on the rusty boards of [Myop's] family's sharecropper cabin, [she] walked along the fence till it ran into to stream made by the spring" (Walker 73). Though Myop is independent in character by use of the setting, she is as well independent of the setting, because the setting does not define her actions; it merely creates other character like distractions. "The air was damp, [silent] close and deep" (Walker 73). This sentence helps along the otherwise dry chronological plot.
             In addition to the idea that the setting divulges strong personality traits for Myop, it also exhibits Myop's interactions with her s...