Answer:
Some qualities Jewett attributes to rural New England is the fact that the place was filled with nature. She describes how there were many trees, and the sunset could be seen glimmering from the tree trunks at the beginning of her story. This, therefore, depicts an area that was eco-friendly, with trees in the surrounding contrary to modern developed cities where skyscrapers have replaced trees. The other reason why her description of rural New England depicts an eco-friendly place is that there are exotic and rare birds residing in the ecosystem. The White Heron was a highly sought-after bird which is the reason the hunter had traveled from a far distance to look for it. This meant that there was a great value to the birds and that the ecosystem that it was living in was a natural habitat that altered for all its needs. Jewett also depicted the people in this rural area to be friendly considering that the hunter who was a stranger was well received by Sylvia’s grandmother. Readers from the area described by Jewett would have agreed to Jewett’s description because she depicted the area in good light describing its natural beauty as well as its friendly people. Even though the description does not show a lot of infrastructural development, it depicts the area as real as it could be in the year 1886.
