Neuromancer Settings

“Night city was like a deranged experiment in social Darwinism, designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb permanently on the fast forward button. Stop hustling and you sank without a trace, but move a little too swiftly and you’d break the fragile surface tension of the black market” (9).
The novel has every paragraph that portrays the setting in the novel. Each paragraph is very detailed and helps you picture the scene while you are reading the novel. For instance, this passage has many things that helps the reader understand the setting of the novel. This passage is about the city life in Japan of a person who is hustling on the streets. It says that the life of a hustler in the city of Japan is very fast, and if the person slows down, he will probably disappear is the race of time. However, moving too fast will also make him lose the track of his life and may end up losing his life. So this passage gives us information about the setting of the novel and tells us that characters in this novel are probably hustlers on the streets of Japan.
The book has paragraphs where the setting have some patterns. Some paragraphs describe a particular scene and some paragraphs mentions some things that gives a reader indirectly an idea about the characters life.
“You reached it through an alley off Baiitsu, where an elevator waited at the foot of transparent shaft. The elevator, like cheap hotel, was an afterthought, lashed to the building with bamboo and epoxy. Case climbed into the plastic cage and used his key, an unmarked length of rigid magnetic tape” (26). This passage describe a perfect setting of a place which is not in a very good condition, could be slums in some city of Japan. The description of elevator tells how poor the place is and this is the place where Case, the leading character of the novel lives. So this helps the reader figuring out that Case is poor person, who is struggling in his life. The setting of each paragraph in this novel helps understand the reading better.