In a four- to five-page essay, examine how place influences the narrative arcs in Frankenstein and A Gathering of Old Men. Do Shelley and Gaines treat place in similar ways? If so, how? If not, what defines their different approaches to place within the larger stories? Between the two novels, which place (i.e., the University of Ingolstadt; Okrney; Geneva; the Arctic; the Marshall Plantation; Mount Zion Cemetery; the LSU campus; Tee Jack's bar; etc.) has the most profound impact on storytelling and why?