1. ELEMENTS OF THE
SHORT STORY 3
Jessica Shelton
Cherokee Wagner
Denise Mendenhall
Diane Durham

2. WHAT IS A SETTING YOU
ASK?
Setting is a tool used in stories to not only set the mood for the
piece, but also let the reader know where the story is taking place.
Instead of reading, “There was a dog outside.”, setting helps to create
something more along the lines of, “The dog in the pink tutu ran
around the yard in the sun with what seemed like happy abandon
after she discovered she wouldn’t be going to the vet afterall.”

3. THE VERY OLD MAN WITH
THE ENORMOUS WINGS
(Google)

4. WHERE DID THE STORY
TAKE PLACE?
 This story took place, long, long ago by the old sandy sea shore.
 Picture to yourself, it has rained and rained for days on end.
 There’s crabs all over your yard EVEN in your house!!
 But that’s not the end… The story really took place in Pelayo’s
courthouse.
 But, that courthouse isn't in just an average town, We can predict
that it is in a Spanish speaking town, by the couples names.

5. WHERE WAS THE OLD
MAN?
 Well, he was not in your average place for a man to be.
 First, he was in the couples yard
 He then was sent on a raft for a few days
 Then, the couple put him in their chicken coop, where people
threw items at him.

6. THE THING IN THE
FOREST
 First of all, the story takes place in Great Britain in the 1940s.
 Penny and Primrose are taken to a mansion on the countryside
with several other children. Near the mansion is a forest.
 The forest was very overgrown and eerie, but also
seemed very beautiful.
(Hall)

7. BUT WHAT CHANGED?
 When the girls went back to the forest, there were water droplets
everywhere, from a recent rain, and there were other things that the
girls found familiar.
 The story scene about going back to the forest seems to want you
to take careful notice of the animals.

8. THE LADY WITH THE DOG
(Kim)

9. THE LADY WITH THE DOG
Yalta
Moscow
Mark Twain said that “Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.”
This works in the literal sense and when it comes to the love affair between
Anna and Gurov.
(Wikipedia)
(Smith)

10. WHAT’S UP WITH YALTA?
 In the beginning of the story, Gurov is in Yalta and has already begun
to find it immensely boring. This tells me that it isn’t a very interesting
place, one you wouldn’t want to stay in very long.
 Yalta is set up for the reader with sounds of crickets, smells of the
sea, and a beautiful scenery – all of these things make for a very romantic
night…too bad it seems Gurov planned it all and is taking advantage of
Anna. It might turn to love later, but at this point, it is all about just what
he can get from her…particularly under her clothes.

11. YALTA: A TOURIST
DESTINATION
 The vacation setting indicates
 Time seemed to stop!
that the relationships formed
 The weather is sultry and hot
would be out of the ordinary.
like the love affair between Anna
 Rumored tales of immorality
and Gurov.
may be true

12. MOSCOW IS COLD AND
DREARY
 It represents the cold, loveless marriages in
which both Anna and Gurov are involved.
 It is routine and unexciting.
 Represents everything that is wrong in Gurov’s
life.

13. WORKS CITED
Google. Digital image. Google. N.p., 1 Dec. 2011. Web. 16 Oct. 2013.
Hall, Emily. The Stranger. Digital image. The Thing in the Story by Emily Hall. N.p.,
20 May 2004. Web. 16 Oct. 2013.
Kim, Seohee. Carpe Diem. Digital image. : Forbidden Romance and the Realism
Depicted in the Lady with the Dog. N.p., 27 Feb. 2013. Web. 16 Oct. 2013.
Smith, Martin C. Moscow: My Kind of Town. Digital image. The Telegraph. Telegraph
Media Group, 01 Oct. 2007. Web. 16 Oct. 2013.
Wikipedia. Yalta. Digital image. Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 08 Oct. 2013. Web. 16
Oct. 2013.