The details about the setting are essential to the story because __________. the house looks the same, which makes the narrator long for the simpler days of her childhood the house looks the same, which contrasts with the changes the narrator has experienced the house has changed, unlike the narrator's opinions about traveling out of the country the house has changed, much like the narrator's opinions about her home state of Texas

the setting can reflect the internal changes or growth of the characters in the story.