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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS
Regarding the problems formulated, this chapter is divided into three sections. The first section is the analysis about the setting of place, time, and
social circumstance in The Storyteller. Then, in the second section, the focus of the analysis is on the main conflicts in the plot. The last section is meant to figure
out Mario Var gas Llosa‘s nationalism through the depiction of setting and main
conflicts.
A. Setting of The Storyteller
The first problem is discussed in this section. The answer of the problem is based on the setting of the novel The Storyteller. It is divided into three parts; they
are setting of place, time, and social condition.
1. Setting of Place
Abrams remarked that every single thing describing ‗general locale, historical time, and social condition‘ in which a literary work takes place is
considered as setting 1999: 284-285. In this part, the focus is on setting of place or location where the story in The Storyteller occurs. Since Peru is the main locale
in this story yet there are also other places significant, the writer divides the analysis of this part into two: setting of place outside and inside Peru. All
locations in the story are not discussed though. The writer only picks places which are important for the discussion.
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a.
Setting of Place outside Peru i.
Firenze
Several places outside Peru are mentioned in The Storyteller. One of them is Firenze. Firenze becomes a significant setting in this novel since it opens the
story by its appearance in the first chapter and it finishes the story for it appears again in the last chapter. The placement of Firenze in the beginning and the last of
the story seem to cover the whole story because the two chapters are put in present time which wrap a flashback part in the middle of the story.
The first chapter of The Storyteller directly mentions Firenze when a no- name narrator stated that he went to that place so that he could release his mind
for a while from thinking about his country, Peru. ‗I came to Firenze to forget
Peru and the Peruvians for a while, and suddenly my unfortunate country forced itself upon me this morning in the most unexpected way
,‘ Llosa, 1989: 3. Firenze as the setting of place in the earliest part of The Storyteller can be
seen not only from the direct mentioning but also from the description of some places belongs to this city. This can be understood when the narrator, who seemed
to have a trip in this city, stated that he visited some places explaining the details of Firenze. The places were
Dante‘s restored house, Church of San Martino del Véscovo, and Via Santa Margherita.
I had visited Dante‘s restored house, the little Church of San Martino del Véscovo, and the lane where, so legend has it, he first saw Beatrice, when,
in the little Via Santa Margherita, a window display stopped me short: bows, arrows, a carved oar, a pot with a geometric design, a mannequin
bundled into a wild cotton cushma Llosa, 1989: 3.
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