Wendigo: Bleak Setting

Gothic literature is written works that employ dark, and startling scenery.The Wendigo is a piece of gothic literature. The Wendigo has a bleak setting, a gothic theme, and includes a gothic villain. In the poem Wendigo, there is a very bleak setting. In the Wendigo, the author sets the background by a house with a fire in the deepest parts of the woods during a cold and wintery season. The continuous laughter of what lurked in the woods, preyed upon a child trying to lure her out. In the poem the Wendigo preys on the bushes to make its next move towards the child, “In the hackles of dry brush a thin laughter started up.” (Erdrich 5). The house is in the deepest part of the woods in mid-winter. Including a predator lurking in the bushes laughing