The setting of the Green Curtain is one of the most distinctive factors in the development of Eudora Welty's writing and in her own assessment of fiction in general. Welty considers setting a powerful tool for a fiction writer. She views setting as a way to provide roots for her characters and a realistic basis for her stories (Vande Kieft 8). More generally, Welty believes that place is so important in itself to the writing and reception of fiction as a whole because of the set of feelings that are often associated with various locations and the added realism gained by the characters defined by their place (9). Welty's attitude toward his settings is also important. Raised in Mississippi, the setting for almost all of her stories, Welty has an understanding of the region, built through experience, that blossoms in her writing. Welty views the environment as a vehicle through which she can give roots to her characters (8). The union between the setting and the characters allows the reader to see the character in his setting, which announces...