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Mood Or Atmosphere In Vera Nuttel's The Open Window
2. Time: October evening
3. Weather: Warm
4. Mood or Atmosphere: quiet, ghastly and eerie
In this story the setting, especially the time and the atmosphere plays an important role, it takes place on a silent evening that makes it creepier and Vera ingeniously takes full advantage of her surrounding to deceive Nuttel.

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This story uses bounded omniscient storyteller perspective, because the narrator knows the characters action and some of Nuttel’s senses and thoughts, however he doesn’t know all of the character’s feelings. The narrator doesn’t tell us what is in Vera’s mind when she tells Nuttel and her family a tale.
In analyzing "The Open Window" we should not dismiss sight of the fact that this is a funny story. None of the

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