Between Here And The Yellow Sea By Pizzolatto

Pizzolatto, a mystery writer, establishes setting as one of the most important components of his craft. He introduces his characters’ happy times using the sun or bright colors in the sky. Through the setting he develops his world, and with it, his emotions of the characters within hiss stories.
After reading Galveston, “Ghost Birds,” and “Between Here and the Yellow Sea,” it is evident that the roles of the settings in short stories and novels by Pizzolatto are used to establish and understand the characters’ emotions in greater depth, and as Pizzolatto grows as an author, his settings become an increasingly complex symbol within his works, thus building empathy with readers.
Author David Housewright stresses the importance of setting,