"First I assumed that the horses' heads were towards eternity." (Dickinson) In this poem a girl takes a carriage ride with death and immortality. This carriage ride is very slow and the girl has to give up a lot for death, almost as if it were her family. During this carriage ride she passes many sites that she was previously too busy to see. Then Death and her stop in front of a house that looks similar to a tomb. Then he dies in eternity. This poem begins with a carriage ride, through many scenes, and ends with the house becoming his barrel. In "Why I Couldn't Stop to Die" by Emily Dickinson, the protagonist suffers from the setting because she has to give up a lot for this carriage ride, but then she gets a generous amount out of it when she sees the many sites, and then at the end, when she he realizes that his journey is over, he is sad to leave the world, but happy to go towards eternity. The first way the setting affects the character in this carriage ride is because he is riding a carriage ride with death and immortality. He must give up his "toils and leisure" (Dickinson) only for death. Not only is this fact ironic, but also the fact that she is enjoying the company of death. She's so busy that she forgets that death is coming to get her. Even if she forgets about him, "this is an appointment that the speaker cannot resist."(Semansky 2) So in this carriage ride, the speaker has to put aside many things in her life, but she is willing because she has faith in death. . But will this trust be rewarded at the end of the poem? During this carriage ride she realizes how much she has missed in her life when she sees the landscape. This setting affects the character because she has now realized all the things she has been missing out on and how much she is gaining from this carriage ride. Since he has taken away his labors and his free time he has time to look at all the wonderful things in life. During this trip they saw many familiar things from his life that he took for granted, but since he is on his last trip, and it is slow, he has time to see them for their beauty.