Although the setting is not specifically identified (except as a city with a population of 135,000), it seems likely that the story takes place in Tarkington's favorite location, Indiana, and may very well represent his hometown of Indianapolis.
In presenting Penrod's environment, Tarkington describes many of the things that make up middle-class life in an early twentieth-century midwestern town,.....
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