The Importance of Setting in a story

Story 1 : The Real Durwan by Jhumpa Lahiri
1) Where has each of the above questions been set?
India, Calcutta
2) What time period has each of these stories been set in?
It has been set in India right after independence.
3) What clues do you get from the setting about the kind of story it is going to turn out to be?
I think it is going to be a depressing story. The setting where the story is taking place shows that Boori Ma is poor.The story also tells us indirectly that it is raining, which shows that the story is going to be a depressing one. Boori Ma also got separated with her family, which also supports the fact that the story is a sad one.

Story 2: The Adventure Of The Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1) Where has each of the above questions been set?
In a rich area in London.
2) What time period has each of these stories been set in?
In the 18 century
3) What clues do you get from the setting about the kind of story it is going to turn out to be?
I think it is going to be a detective based story.The setting takes place in the morning which is normally the case for detective scenarios as anything thing can happen at anytime.The client also seemed extremely excited to meet Sherlock Holmes, a detective.She insists on meeting him as she has something eager to tell him.

Story 3: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
1) Where has each of the above questions been set?
In England
2) What time period has each of these stories been set in?
Longbourn, in rural England
3) What clues do you get from the setting about the kind of story it is going to turn out to be?
The Bennet family is poor,
4) The story of To Kill A Mockingbird takes place in Maycomb, Alabama. This already gives us an impression as we roughly know that the Civil Right Movement happened around that region. Maycomb was also a town where the blacks and the whites were living together where there is high possibility that things can take place. Maycomb is a quiet town and this increases the chance that sparks will be produced between the white and the blacks.