Answer:
The setting of the story affects Elnora's personal desires by describing her family's poverty and need for financial help for her education.
Explanation:
Lenora is a very intelligent and motivated girl who is about to start high school at the beginning of the story, it is set in a difficult time for her mother and herself in the little town where they live. Lenora desires to achieve a great academic education and she fights for it until she becomes an independent woman, even though her surroundings were not very helpful.
