Setting

The physical setting of the short story “The Castle” by Chloë Heuch is somewhere in the UK, since the narrator uses British pounds to pay for admittance to the castle. More specifically, the story may take place in Wales, as the names Osian and Cai are Welsh and Wales has a huge number of medieval castles.

The most important element in the physical setting is the castle. The castle seems to have been a place that interested ...