It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America. It was on that
slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York — and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land. —The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald Which element of setting is present in this excerpt from The Great Gatsby?.
It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America. It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York—and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land.
There's a lot of personification, because each item is "saying". Personification is when a non-living things does something that only things that live do, for instance "saying"
