In what ways do two of the works you have studied use the depiction of specific settings to challenge or reinforce the social hierarchy?
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Both Fitzgerald and Roy present setting not as a neutral backdrop but as a social topography in which hierarchy is physically inscribed. In The Great Gatsby, class division is mapped onto the geography of Long Island through the separation of West Egg, East Egg and the Valley of Ashes; in The God of Small Things, R