Abstract

Settings in the works of such famous writers as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, James Joyce, and Joyce Carol Oates play an active role in creating realistic characters and events. More significantly, they reflect the characters' inner thoughts or a whole society's set of values. Through the use of setting, these writers are able to portray their philosophy of life as seen from the perspective of that society and that setting.