The setting of the events

The events in the analysed text happen in a colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, which is quite isolated from other houses: “It is quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village.” The setting of the events in the given extract is quite a realistic one. Furthermore, it is presented in a very detailed way: “There is a DELICIOUS garden! I never saw such a garden--large and shady, full of box-bordered paths, and lined with long grape-covered arbors with seats under them.”

I’d like to emphasize that practically all time the main character spends in her room. To my mind, it is expressed in a specific way as it symbolizes the emotional state of the character. The narrator gives a very precise description of this room, for example: “It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls. The paint and paper look as if a boys' school had used it.  It is stripped off--the paper--in great patches all around the head of my bed, about as far as I can reach, and in a great place on the other side of the room low down. I never saw a worse paper in my life.” From this very quote it stands out a mile that the woman hates being there. Especially she seethes with anger at the colour of the walls: “The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight. It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in others. No wonder the children hated it! I should hate it myself if I had to live in this room long.”