The importance of setting in Dreiser's and Faulkner's storie

them forget human values. "Bloody September twilight", "the hell of white man" , "pall" et.c. they associations with death. Ii forecasts in some way the murder which was going to happen and in general the hostility of people and their readiness to kill a man because of the idea of racism, which in fact means killing without any circumstances and reason.
             As for concrete places the barber shop is the room where cruel and heartless people gathered. It was almost impossible to breath because of the stale air and durn weather: "the air was flat and dead. It had a metallic taste at the base of the tongue." This stale air as already entered not only into the room but also into their souls. As the tension grows the author highlights this atmosphere of stuffiness and the idea of the death.
             Faulkner describes the street which also is full of hostility and uses words in order to emphasize the image animosity and staleness: " the spare lights, insect swirled, glared in rigid and violent suspension of the lifeless air." Here we come across the "light". It can be associated with ray of dignity and honesty but they do not shine and they "glare&q
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