Cathedral Setting

Is the setting of a story important?

In all stories a good setting is an important thing to have. The setting of a story can have a huge impact on the story. A good setting can make or break most stories as it is sometimes a key story telling point. Take the story “Cathedral” for example it take place in a home in New York City during the 80’s. These details help shape the story and provide the reader with a good idea of what everything may look like. “Cathedral’s setting also gives the reader an idea on how people will act toward each other. Cathedral’s setting also provides readers viewpoints on the people in the story, for example, the wife of the narrator was a woman, so since it was the 80’s there was probably a lot of degrading by other men at her job. Also she probably had to work extra hard at her job than most others.
These non-mentioned details are a great example of why setting can be an important part of the story. The detail make sense of why some things happen the
Throughout the series they go all over America to complete quests. This also helps the story as very popular spots are important to their quests. For example, at one point in the series the heroes how to go to the Hollywood sigh in order to get the underworld. Another time they had to go Las Vegas in order to get an ancient item they needed in order to get to the underworld. These examples are why setting is important to this series. Without the setting it has, it would have probably not gotten to the level of popularity it has today. Rick Riordan himself visited these locations and looked around their famous landmarks in order to be able to completely and accurately describe these locations so has to help the story. These examples are just another reason why the setting of the story greatly influenced the story itself and made it the series that has kept its fans interested and loving it to this