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How to Read: Title & Setting
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Title and Setting

Wallflowers—alone and forgotten
Poor titles. Poor settings. They sit out the dance, they miss all the fun, they get no respect. Everyone is so busy analyzing plot, characters, symbols or irony, they overlook titles and settings.

But we ignore them at our peril
Although often taken for granted, titles and setting provide important clues to a story's central ideas.