Fool for Love

What is the setting?

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Fool for Love is set in a motel on the edge of the Mojave Desert (California). The action is confined to one motel room, which is occupied by May. It is a cheap room with faded paintings and old fashioned floors and furnishings. Adjacent to the room is a bathroom and the parking lot. The Old Man sits in a rocker inside the room, from which he can observe the proceedings and comment as necessary. Because this room is May's and a symbol of her growing sense of independence, Eddie's presence seems like an invasion as he tries to control her within it and lure her out of it. May ends up leaving on her own, but the Old Man, her father, remains, as he will be part of her consciousness forever.

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