The Necklace Lesson Plan

How does the setting in “Mademoiselle Fifi” contribute to the mood of the story?

In “Mademoiselle Fifi,” a storm rages for most of the present-day moments of the story. The narrator says, “the rain flooded down, the kind you typically have in Normandy, rain that looked as if it were being unleashed by some furious hand; it came down in great diagonal sheets that formed a kind of wall with slanted stripes, the driving, the splashing rain that floods everything, the true down-pour you get in the outskirts of Rouen, that chamberpot of France." That kind of rain likely comes with cloudiness anddarkness. It persists through the incident with Rachel and the subsequent search...