New Mexico NM-MSSA Spanish Language Arts Grade 7 Practice Questions - New Mexico Measures Of Student Success & Achievement - Spanish Language Arts, Grade 7 Exam

The train-station setting intensifies Mateo's anxiety about waiting, driving his decision to act. The setting is irrelevant because Mateo's feelings come only from memory. The platform exists only to describe the weather, not to affect Mateo. Mateo's watch is a symbol unrelated to the setting or the plot.