... , he thought - blunt, tidy, gruffly respectable, and offering no affront to the world, though at the same time inviting nobody. It sat back fifty yards from the road on three acres of alfalfa, strawberries, raspberries, and orderly vegetable gardens- (Guterson, 69). This description of Carl Heine's home, realistic as most physical descriptions exist, has a more cavernous meaning than simply a layout of ... . Thus the description of Carl Heine's home apparently alludes to his very character. The presence of setting, in its most transparent realistic form, swabs the otherwise blasé backgro...

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