Analyzing settings

The setting provides context into Dorothy and her rural American upbringing. Their is a sense of contentment yet also naivete and innocence to this setting that forms her character. Dorothy lived on the great and desolate Kansas prairie with her Uncle Henryand her Aunt Em. They had a very small house and Dorothy had a little bed in the corner of the single room. There was a small hole in the floor that served as a cyclone cellar. Everywhere Dorothy looked was flat and gray. The sun and wind were harsh and turned the once pretty and young Aunt Em into a hardened old woman. Uncle Henry never smiled either, and when Dorothy laughed Aunt Em looked surprised. What made Dorothy laugh was her little dog Toto; she was amused by him and they played all day long.