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Read the following excerpts from various plays and discuss in class, how
the setting is described. Highlight all the descriptive phrases that you can
find.

As you read the excerpt, highlight or underline the words or


phrases that relate to the setting.

A Streetcar Named Desire

by

Tennessee Williams

SCENE ONE

The exterior of a two-story corner building on a street in New Orleans


which is named Elysian Fields and runs between the L & N tracks and the
river. The section is poor but, unlike corresponding sections in other
American cities, it has a raffish charm. The houses are mostly white
frame, weathered gray, with rickety outside stairs and galleries and
quaintly ornamented gables. This building contains two flats, upstairs and
down. Faded white stairs ascend to the entrances of both.

It is first dark of an evening early in May. The sky that shows around the
dim white building is a peculiarly tender blue, almost a turquoise, which
invests the scene with a kind of lyricism and gracefully attenuates the
atmosphere of decay. You can almost feel the warm breath of the brown
river beyond the river warehouses with their faint Negro entertainers at a
bar room around the corner. In this part of New Orleans you are practically
always just around the corner, or a few doors down the street, from a tiny
piano being played with the infatuated fluency of brown fingers. This "Blue
Piano" expresses the spirit of the life which goes on here.

Two women, one white and one colored, are taking the air on the steps of
the building. The white woman is Eunice, who occupies the upstairs flat;
the colored woman a neighbor, for New Orleans is a cosmopolitan city
where there is a relatively warm and easy intermingling of races in the old
part of town. Above the music of the "Blue Piano" the voices of people on
the street can be heard overlapping.

What is the mood and atmosphere created by the setting description in


the excerpts above?

GHOSTS

by Henrik Ibsen

ACT FIRST.

[A spacious garden-room, with one door to the left, and two doors to the
right. In the middle of the room a round table, with chairs about it. On the
table lie books, periodicals, and newspapers. In the foreground to the left
a window, and by it a small sofa, with a worktable in front of it. In the
background, the room is continued into a somewhat narrower
conservatory, the walls of which are formed by large panes of glass. In the
right-hand wall of the conservatory is a door leading down into the
garden. Through the glass wall a gloomy fjord landscape is faintly visible,
veiled by steady rain.]

Question: What is the mood and atmosphere created by the setting


description in the excerpt above?

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