comment on setting

There are two points to note about the narrative's setting. They are its placement in time and in space. In terms of the former, the relevant aspects are implied rather than laid out. At the time the novel was written and published in the early 1920's, women were in the middle of what has been described as the First Wave of feminism or specifically, the movement towards women's suffrage or the right to vote. Women were claiming the right to be regarded and treated as individuals, as more than the unthinking objects of male influence and control. In this context then, the experiences of the individual women in "The Enchanted April" can be seen as manifesting, at least to some degree, the experience of women as a group is an experience of searching for freedom and identity.