Every writer begins their own inventive process differently. While some start creating new characters, others focus on exploring the world in which their character lives in. To make the setting come alive the author provides significant details so that it helps readers visualize how it is important.
Short story, Ind Aff, composed by Fay Weldon, discourses the thoughts and self-realization as the setting of the story’s atmosphere is unfolded early, creating a sense of melancholy that is prevalent throughout the story. The most apparent use of setting is the mentioning of the country that the couples are in and reveals …show more content…
Weather plays a major component in the setting for this foreshadows what is going to happen or what the narrator is about to realize. The couple was supposed to have a romantic picnic and make love afterwards, but due to weather complications, plans had to be altered. The weather in Sarajevo was supposed to be clear, but the narrator begins to describe some “black clouds” (Weldon 202) that she sees overhead. The black clouds represent the inevitable and blocks out any divine illumination that may appear. Just as the black clouds roll in, it begins to rain, creating a sense of impending disaster that is about to happen or currently occurring. In a way, the rain leads as a sense of error, reminding the couple of what they had done. As the couple tries to shield away from the rain, the narrator begins to slowly question their relationship with each water droplet that constantly hits her. The narrator’s mind then reverts back to Princip’s “footprints,” saying that during the assassination there was no rain. This implies that since there was no way the rain could “fall” on Princip’s footprints, he was not reminded about the error that he was going to commit. He went forward with the assassination, but if the rain had started to pour, hopefully he would have changed his mind. In the end it was too