My method of telling such tales is simple: I place my characters in an existing situation and let it happen to them.

The film places its characters thoroughly in their social milieu.

It places its monochromatic characters in situations so ludicrously extreme, in fact, that the play's authorship has been called into question.

The Power of Fate- Throughout the novel, Chesnutt places his characters in highly coincidental situations.

Topics tended to be big - very big - in plays that placed their characters in shifting environments with nebulous rules and wide historical implications.

His fiction is distinguished by the exotic and sometimes hostile settings in which he places his characters.

Auster is known for placing his fictional characters in real-time contexts with real events as backdrop to his narratives.

(F.) (17) A good example of the moral dilemmas in which Chretien delights to place his characters.

But Mr. Star then places his characters in a glamorous - sometimes improbably glamorous - setting.

It is an author's privilege in historical fiction to place his characters at the center of large events, interacting with important people.