The Effects of Setting

Author Willa Cather embedded literary devices, such as metaphors, similes, and personification, within her writing.

"As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running."

"The grave, with its tall red grass that was never mowed, was like a little island."

"Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie. The wind that sweeps in from the open country strips away all the leafy screens that hide one yard from another in summer, and the houses seem to draw closer together. The roofs, that looked so far away across the green treetops, now stare you in the face, and they are so much uglier than when their angles were softened by vines and shrubs.



    The Setting of the novel effects everyone in it, if it were to take place somewhere else, it might not effect the characters the same way. For example if it were to take place in Antonia's home country it might not effect her as much as it would Jim or his Grandparents..

   The setting around me makes me look back on my younger years and regret being such a brat when my Grandfather was alive, it makes me wish I would have been more loving and caring, I miss him so much and wish he was here to watch me shoot trap, kill deer/ducks, and be at my wedding. All the Christmas lights and Christmas trees are like a giant arrow pointing to the sky, telling me that he is watching over me and is with me no matter where I'm at..