Anna’s House

Anna’s house is the central setting of the story, and its confinement mirrors her psychological state. She rarely leaves it, spending most of her time observing the garden from her window. The house creates a claustrophobic atmosphere. The house is a self-contained world in which Anna’s perceptions dominate, cutting her off from alternative viewpoints and any wider context. The house embodies the limits of Anna’s experience and her inward-focused, unstable consciousness.

Café

On one of the few occasions that Anna leaves the house during the course of the story, she goes to a café where they see Dr W. Anna believes that Stella reacts negatively to seeing him. This heightens the perception that Anna interprets everything she experiences as being further evidence of the story she has already decided is true.