The setting itself, an apartment or home, is bolstered by numerous images of “long halls” and “freshly painted walls” (10,15). The setting and imagery offers a deliberate tone, describing Franny’s preference to “take the longish walk down the hall to her parents’ bedroom” where she would observe the “smell of fresh paint, plus the newspapers underfoot”(5-6,11). The setting is obviously a confined space, metaphorically parallel to Franny’s thoughts: cluttered and multifarious. The images of the freshly-painted bedroom with “furniture…herded into the middle of the room and covered with canvas” allude to new beginnings, possibly for the whole Glass family, who are going through a transformative period as evidenced by Franny’s hesitance to talk to her own brother (16). The bare room that she walks into is what she thinks of as “ideal”: a fresh start with no
The setting itself, an apartment or home, is bolstered by numerous images of “long halls” and “freshly painted walls” (10,15). The setting and imagery offers a deliberate tone, describing Franny’s preference to “take the longish walk down the hall to her parents’ bedroom” where she would observe the “smell of fresh paint, plus the newspapers underfoot”(5-6,11). The setting is obviously a confined space, metaphorically parallel to Franny’s thoughts: cluttered and multifarious. The images of the freshly-painted bedroom with “furniture…herded into the middle of the room and covered with canvas” allude to new beginnings, possibly for the whole Glass family, who are going through a transformative period as evidenced by Franny’s hesitance to talk to her own brother (16). The bare room that she walks into is what she thinks of as “ideal”: a fresh start with no