sentences:  Sally Carrol Happer, a young woman from the fictional city of Tarleton, Georgia, United States of America, is bored with her unchanging environment.Her local friends are dismayed to learn she is engaged to Harry Bellamy, a man from an unspecified town in the northern United States of America.She brushes off their concerns, alluding to her need for something more in her life, a need to see "things happen on a big scale."