The two novels that I will compare in this literary essay will be "The House Of the Spirits", by Isabel Allende, and "The Outsider", by Albert Camus. In "The House Of The Spirits", there are many themes present in the novel that can be tied into the setting of the novel, for instance, the magic vs. realism theme is portrayed well with the big house on the corner. In "The Outsider", there is not as …showed first 75 words of 1097 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1097 total…settings in The Outsider serve more of a purpose in the novel to portray the overall idea Camus is trying to get across to us. The themes I mentioned in the House of Spirits are only a few of many themes in the novel. As there are more themes in The House of the Spirits, there is not as much importance in having themes of setting in this novel, as there is in The Outsider.