The setting of the story

We can define two types of the setting of this story: physical and mental.
The physical settings are:

• the place, where now the narrator is (a prison or maybe an insane asylum);

• the house, the bedroom, where was committed a murder. There are only few details about this house in the story, which are directly given. We know that the old man kept his shutters tightly locked. And we can only imagine a bedroom, where the narrator killed the old man. This story taps our fears of the dark, and what the dark might hold. Reading this story, you look involuntarily around… Maybe someone also spies on you. 

The most important setting of this story is mental. It clearly explains the personality of the narrator. We can or try to understand the actions of the narrator, we know his feelings. It gives us more clear idea of the main character, of his essence.

The action in the narrator's story takes place over eight days.