8th+-+Southern+Stories+-+Setting

The setting of this story is in a town located somewhere in north Florida. It's a small town, close to the border, where the narrator and her mother live. Part of the story takes place at bar in town where the mother of the narrator is a waitress. The bar is an oyster bar where rude and distasteful men come and boss around the narrator’s mother. Other portions of the story take place on a flooded river in town. The river contains fecal matter, sewage, dead animals and insects, as well as bodies. The setting of the story helps to understand why the narrator use phrases such as "broil and growl" to describe the place.
 * Maurice**

king_kong_jordan This story takes place near a body of water. You know this because of the oyster bar and the ships in the story. Most of the people that come to the bar are men that talk dirty to the narrarator's mom. This place in in Florida somewhere in a little town. The other place in the story is a flooded river. This is where the mom dies. It is also where the girl sees disturbing images like dead animals and bodies.

Chris: The story takes place in a small town. Part of it takes place in a flashback where the mother is found at the Oyster Bar and being mistreated by obnoxious customers. When we are taken back to the present we see a flooded town. The water is muddy, dirty, bloody contains bugs, lifeless corpses of pepple and animals, and has about anything in the water that isn't supposed to be there. The setting is gloomy and melancholic, but it sets the perfect mood for such a tragic story as __The Other End of Nowhere__.