The Scarlet Ibis
Why is the setting so important?
This question is from the writing about literature section right after the short story in the article.
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The setting is 1911-1918, on a cotton farm in North Carolina. The backdrop would have been WW1. I think the author might have wanted to use the relationship of the brothers with the relationship of European countries, killing each other, during WW1.
