Setting

In this section of the study guide, we discuss the setting of the short story “Your Shoes” by Michèle Roberts.

Time setting

The short story was published in 1993, which means that the events are most likely supposed to take place around that time.

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Physical setting

The main physical setting of the story is the daughter’s bedroom, where the mother locks herself and where she talks to the shoes as if they were a person:

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Social setting

The social setting presents how the gap between generations can come to affect the members of the same family, but also the way in which a teenager can be influenced by entourage. The narrator believes that her daughter is “spoilt” (p. 30, l. 34) and influenced by “her lot” (p. 30, l. 38), which is the main reason why she drinks, experiences with drugs and probably has sex at fifteen: “You laughed at me, you said lots of girls in your class had had sex by the time they were fifteen, you weren’t going to be the exception.” (p. 34, ll. 21-23)

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