It is interesting that the setting of the stories reveal many things.It helps the readers know where does the story take place,what kind of the environment in each period of time or traditional in each season would be and what causes the characters to do something. Sometimes we know how characters feel or their personalities through setting.
For example,in Miss Brill,she lives in a little dark room that it looks like a cupboard which mirror loneliness then it makes us know that she is lonely. Another example is in The Boarding house,social environment is shown because Mrs.Mooney wants her daughter to marry with Mr. Doran because of the affair between Polly and Mr.Doran,she cares so much about the social so she is afraid that other people around her would look down on her,Polly and Mr.Doran