When I first started reading Neuromancer I immediately picked up on one pattern involving the setting, and that was this place was a very depressing and miserable place to be. As I continued to read further I started noticing this reoccurring theme not only in the description of the settings, but in also the characters emotions, which in result intensified the description of the setting that much more. For example, Gibson writes, “But the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo, and he’d cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the dark, curled up in his capsule in some coffin hotel, his hands clawed into the bedslab, temperfoam bunched between his fingers, trying to reach the console that wasn’t there”. Even in this man’s subconscious, his dreams, he is still overwhelmed by the pressures he faces in his everyday life, and it seems that even in his dreams he can’t escape the miserable coffin like hotel that he calls home. The mere fact that Gibson deliberately writes that the mattress is squeezing between his fingers is proof that Gibson is trying to emphasis the fear and misery that this man has to deal with. This truly sounds like whoever this man is he has found hell on earth.

Another passage that I found very descriptive of the “unique” setting that this novel takes place is when Gibson writes about the city and what the surroundings are like, and he says, “Now he slept in the cheapest coffins, the ones nearest the port, beneath the quartz-halogen floods that lit the docks all night like vast stages; where you couldn’t see the lights of Tokyo for the glare of the television sky”. I like this passage for two reasons. The First reason being is that it is so descriptive; it even goes into detail the lighting Case has to live in.The second reason is being that it is that the description is very figurative. Does the fact that he lives nearest to the port suggest anything about is spiritual standings? Or is a representation of his economical status? All sorts and kinds of questions can be asked about the following passage. And the detailed description of the setting makes it seem as if the passage becomes even more open to interpretation, which I found enjoyable.