“Any given character may happen to
be found, of course, in any setting; but a good writer chooses the setting
which makes character and situation clear. (I do not mean that a character
ought to be discovered in the setting that best reveals him. A man of the
mountains may be found in an automat; but if the man’s nature is to be clear to
the reader, the mountains must somehow be implied...)”
Gardner,
John. On Moral Fiction. New York:
Basic Books, 1978. 119. Print.
