CH3 Setting Quotes

• the day had been a dreary one

  • miserable setting reflects MM + JW feelings
  • MM - father is missing
  • JW - can't get Mary
• a dense drizzly fog lay low upon the great city

  • miserable setting reflects MM + JW feelings
  • MM - father is missing
  • JW - can't get Mary
• mud-coloured clouds drooped sadly over the muddy streets

  • repetition
  • personification - drooped - foreshadow events. weather reflects events
  • mud - hard to get through, dirty, danger of falling
  • represents case
• misty splotches of diffused light which threw a feeble circular glimmer upon the slimy pavement
• there was, to my mind, something eerie and ghost-like

  • introduction to gothic type
  • represents mystery and danger
• the dull, heavy evening, with the strange business... combined to make me nervous and depressed

  • pathetic fallacy - foreshadows events that are "strange" and "heavy" -> chapter 4 - MM father
• labyrinth of streets

  • classical allusion? - greek mythology
  • maze, lost, mystery, complex - reflecting the case
• a questionable and forbidding neighbourhood

  • unusual - linked to the East
  • ominous, dangerous - will link to attitudes of foreignness in chapter 4
• the monster tentacles which the giant city was throwing out into the country

  • metaphor - monster tentacles - fear, horror, terror, foreshadows discovery
  • hyperbole - giant city - lost (except Holmes)
  • personification - throwing out - city is intimidating, threatening