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The setting, which is the forest, is the antagonist in Hector Hugh Monro's "The Interlopers," is a trechourous villain. The narrator gives many details about how horrible the forest is like when he says, "Assuredly there was a disturbing element in the forest"(190). Theforest is so evil that it ends up hurting the characters whcih the narrator goes into detail about when he says, "A deed of Nature's own violence overwhelmed them both. A fierce shriek of the storm had been answered by a splitting crash over their heads, and before they could leap aside,a mass of falling beach tree had thundered down on them"(190). The narrator goes on to describe the forest as, "The cold,gloomy forest, with the wind tearing in fitful gusts"(192). The forest is so treachorous that it kills the charactersat the end. Clearly the forest is an ominous and unforgiving setting.