The Effects of Setting

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.


  Where this novel takes place has effects everybody. Of course, none of the characters, (Jim, Antonia, Ambrosche, Grandmother), view it or look at it the same way. Each character has his or her way of looking at the location they are in. An example is that Jim likes the landscape and qualities of the setting, of where they are.

  The plains and mountains that make up my environment are amazingly beautiful. I can look at the plains for hours as far as my eyes can see and to me they resemble the ocean of where i used to live. The mountains are as tall as the sky and look as if they go past the clouds. The view from the top of these mountains show the entire city that's full of lights resembles stars that fill the sky at night.