Setting

The setting in Pride and Prejudice is important for only two reasons: to set up the distinction between sophisticated city folk and provincial country folk thus explaining the snobbery of the Bingley sisters, and to set up the distinction in class between,  Pemberley and Longbourn, which is a considerably more humble location. Also Mr. Collins’s parsonage is on Lady Catherine’s land, and that Elizabeth is related to Mr. Collins while Darcy is related to Lady Catherine. These distinctions help us realize the size of the class distinctions that Elizabeth and Darcy cross by marrying each other. In Oklahoma! the opposite is shown where the setting seems vastly empty and rough land. What is important about the setting is the horrizon and the nostalgic sense of community while the hope having the territory become a state.