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Setting often creates mood in a story. The setting tells the reader where and how the story takes place.Two works that prove this to be true the novel Dr. Kekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Lous Stevenson and the short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe.
In the short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe, is very similar to the novel written by Stevenson.The mood or setting in this novel was the actual house of the Usher family. Poe tells us that the house is extremely dark and gloomy which makes the relate to what the character is feeling.
In the novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, the author Stevenson choose to us what he thought was the most scary setting, the house of Mr. Hyde. His house had one door with no windows which helped the reader to realize that Hyde had something to hide.
The setting that the author does have as effect on the readers intact of the story. This is proven by the novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and the short story " The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe.
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