Emotional Setting

The emotional setting of a story is different depending on the atmosphere of the setting. The relationship between characters, environment, or the general impression of the emotional aspect of the situation. It can be a happy emotional setting or it could be a sad emotional setting depending on the situations of different stories. Setting, without the emotional aspect can loose a great deal of details and making the story incomplete. When the reader reads an incomplete story with incomplete emotions then it can really confuse the reader. The setting in Of Mice and Man starts off relaxing because they are relaxing on grass and slept on the grass on their way to the ranch. Then when they got to the ranch the emotional setting got a little tense because they are worried if they can get the job and the ranch boss is also testing if they are qualified to finish the job. Then it gets more tense when they meet Curly because he actually show hostility rather than just being alarmed and because of that the situation was tensing. Then when he left, Candy soothes the situation down. The first time George and Lennie met Candy, the emotional setting was kind of a dog-eat-dog situation, every man for themselves because on the ranch, people do work for themselves and try to keep minimum contact with each other. However, they started growing a little spark of friendship because they started to know each other. Referring back to the previous journal entry, they understand more about each other so it is easier to be nice and like each other.