The setting of the story

 

Now it is high time to speak about the setting of the events of the story. As we know, Charlotte Perkins Gilman is great writer, who make fantastic descriptions of the events, which help us easily understand which things happen in the story.

The events of the story take place in a colonial mansion, which is quite isolated from other houses: “It is quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village”.  At first sight, the main character likes this house, but, on other hand, she finds something strange in it: “That spoils my ghostliness, I am afraid, but I don’t care-there is something strange about the house-I can feel it”. The setting of the events is realistic.  To my mind, the author chose such building to show how the main character is lonely. So, it is not a surprise that all her time she spends only in one room. We can see all her feelings to this room; she likes it, then the room scared her and, all in all, the main character hates it. “The color is repellent, almost revolting; smoldering 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.”