The Effect of Setting

            "As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running."  This is Carthers way of telling the setting in My Antoina. I like the way that Cather descibes the setting of the novel, but I believe that she is trying to make it sound more prettier than what it really is.  if i were to try and tell the reader of this blog what i think the setting is it would go like this.  As i looked into the country side the grass looked like and infinite sea of red, as if the grass was the red sea when god turned the river into blood.