Read this excerpt from Fever 1793The bright sun blinded me as I stepped outdoors. The garden looked distressingly poor, even with all the watering I had done and the brief rain.What does the first-person narrative reveal about the setting?

The bright sun and the garden’s poor condition suggest that the weather has been hot and dry. The narrator says she watered the garden and that there was only a brief rain, yet it still looked distressed. This supports “The weather has been hot and dry,” rather than meaning that it is raining now.

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