What is the significance of the setting in “A Murder is Announced”.

Chipping Cleghorn is a small town where the neighbors know each other too well, and the doors are unlocked.Chipping Cleghorn is the setting of "A Murder is Announced." One paper boy can supply the papers to the whole town. The women of Chipping Cleghorn pay attention to the paper for more than current events in politics. They pay attention more to the current events of the people in town. Taking place right after the war, people still feel the affects of what has taken place. Mitzi demonstrates this the best with her paranoid behavior after her experience as a war refugee.