Does the setting of a story influence your evaluation of events that will happen in it? Where or when it takes place can create a mood and also give some fareshadowing. Paying close attention to these details can help the reader pick out unnoticed details. Setting can also create a psychological state. One can find examples of this in stories written by Ernest Hemingway and Edgar Allen Poe.
             The setting in Ernest Hemingway's story "The End of Something" reveals a mood in the beginning and foreshadows as well. The narrator tells us about a lumbering town called Hortons Bay and how after one year everything was packed up and moved out. " The one-story bunk houses, the eating house, the company store, the mill offices, and the big mill itself stood deserted in the acres of sawdust that covered the swampy meadow by the shore of the bay". This sentence alone seems to suggest a negative mood and foreshadow a negative event that will take place as well. The story leads then to, "ten years later there was nothing of the mill left except the broken white limestone of its foundations showing through the swampy second growth," this line helps to paint a picture in one's mind of an abandoned town. It also brings depressing thoughts of how dreary it is. Nick feels the same about love. In other words, he feels his relationship with Marjorie seems dull and not lively. He says,!
             "it isn't fun any more," the word it meaning love. Marjorie packs up and leaves Nick after he makes this comment and now one can visualize the deserted town and also deserted Nick.
             In Ernest Hemingway's story "The Three-Day Blow" the setting reveals details which foreshadow and contain underlying meanings to the character's feelings. "The fruit had been picked and the fall wind blew through the bare trees," suggests Nick's feelings of bareness now that he and Marjorie are no longer together, and the damage done will remain. "It was the first of the autumn storms," f...