By setting the scene, the reader is shown an aspect of symbolism of the ideology of Salem at the time. ‘There is a narrow window at the left. Through the lead plains’ the description of this window allows the reader to understand what Salem was like. The small window shows how the room is cut-off from light, deprived and mostly filled with dark. As we go on to find, Betty lying inert shows the dark side of the town. The lead plains connote a prison cell, you can see out but you cannot go. You are locked in by your own wrong doings. The towns wrong doings or the people in it have forced them to live locked in the darl, possibly where the ‘witches’ could lay low…