环境描写的艺术
在故事写作中，环境描写的一个重要目的是表现主题。这种叙事与描写相结合手法在日常话语中并不鲜见，以下文字来自拜登粉丝在拜登赢得美国大选后的话语。
“It’s surreal, I feel like I’m free from the clutches of evil,” said Lola Faleit, a 26-year-old human resources manager. “In 2016, we woke up crying. Today we are celebrating. Look, the sky is clear blue, the sun is out, Mother Nature is celebrating, too.”
（26岁的人力资源经理Lola Faleit说：“这太不真实了，我觉得自己从邪恶的魔爪中解脱出来了”。“2016年，我们哭着醒来。今天我们欢庆。看，天空湛蓝，太阳高照，大自然也在庆祝。”）
拜登胜选，这位粉丝喜极而泣，在他眼里这是正义对邪恶的胜利，感觉像逃离魔爪一般，连天地自然都显得那么不一样。
下面文字来自凯特.肖邦的短篇故事《一小时的故事》（The Story of an Hour）,当女主角得知她那家暴丈夫“死亡”后，那种畅快淋漓的心情通过环境描写充分地表现出来。
There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul.
She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which someone was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.
There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and piled one above the other in the west facing her window