"Greasy Lake" by Jack London and "To Build a Fire" by T. Coraghessan Boyle.

Short Stories: Setting The setting of a story can allude to what kind of story it will be. There are many things that a setting is able to suggest other than simply where the story takes place. A story's setting deals with the place that the story occurs, the time it takes place in, and the atmosphere that it evokes. It can show that there will be romance, it will be funny, there will be …

…give away what actually happens in the end, they can put some ideas into your head as you are reading. They certainly do allude to some dire occurrence in the stories by use of place and time. The setting of a story, especially in these two cases, is very important because it can help the reader to understand why certain things occur, and it gives them a sense of what the story is really about.