What is the setting of "The Scarlet Ibis"? | 台北市立動物園資訊網

2021年3月19日—TheoverallsettingofthisshortstoryisNorthCarolinaintheearly1900s.Wegetasenseofthisgeographythroughthementionofplaceslikethe ...

What is the setting of "The Scarlet Ibis"?

The overall setting of this short story is North Carolina in the early 1900s. We get a sense of this geography through the mention of places like the cotton field and the swamp. Within the backdrop of the American South, there are several more specific locations where the action of the story takes place—in and around the narrators childhood home.

To begin with, the narrator first mentions that in his present-day, he sits remembering the storys events from his "cool green parlor" (1). None of the scenes of the plot happen here, but it is the frame within which the memories of the events emerge, a space of calm distanced from the turmoil of the past.

The childhood home is where the real events of the story are centered; the interior where they grow up, the breakfast table where Doodle walks in front of his parents for the first time, and the yard where the scarlet ibi...