If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, …

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If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in harmony or in conflict with the background. ✨ Janet Burroway (1987). Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, Little Brown
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