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What Is The Mood Of The Management Of Grief By Mukherjee

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"The Management of Grief" by Bharati Mukherjee is one story that uses setting to establish the mood. The setting for this story is set in Canada in a Indian community during the Sikh terrorist bombing of an Air India plane in 1985. The setting of this story shapes all the conflicts the narrator goes through and also sets the mood. In the story, a group of indians have gathered up in their community in Canada for each other's comfort as they listen to the news about the bombing. The narrator has to make decisions based on where she lives and what is happening, after all being "In Canada is a different story." than in dealing with this problem in India (pg. 441). The narrator goes to India and her mom makes her stay there more than she is willing

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