Setting

Physical setting

The short story “The Skirt” by Zoe Lambert is set in modern-day Manchester, England, on a hot summer’s day in July. Most of the action takes place in Bethany’s house, which is located in a poorly maintained neighborhood: on her way to the bus station, Bethany passes over “the broken, uneven pavement and round the trees that seemed to burst from between the slabs” (ll. 104-105). The ending of the story is set in a bus station and on a bus, where Bethany needs to face her fears of social exposure, and assert her independence, something she cannot do in her mother’s house. In one of her flashbacks, Bethany describes her previous home. It is a “freezing” room, where “a patch of mould in the corner was spreading, grey-green and furry” (ll. 37-38). These features of the physical setting hint towards the characters’ relatively low social and financial status. We are also given brief descriptions of how the room looked like on the day Bethany woke up to find herself paralyzed: “the wooden stool beside me on the bed, its leg bro...

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