Good Advice Is Rarer than Rubies | Setting
Because one theme of the story concerns how people are happy living in an Eastern environment, the setting is very important. The story takes place outside a British consulate in an unnamed town in India, which establishes a contrast between Eastern and Western culture. Women, accompanied by male family members, arrive at the consulate every Tuesday to obtain permits to immigrate to England to meet their husbands or fiancés. Inside the consulate, “sahibs” eat their breakfast while Indian women wait outside in line to see them. “Sahib” is a term Indians used during the Raj period...
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