Depression Aashik I English In the short story “Never” by H.E. Bates, the atmosphere is heavily influenced by the imagery portrayed. The atmosphere is represented as depressing, dark and lonely. One reason why the imagery is so highly impactful to the atmosphere is because of how Nellie perceives the outside world around her as the “great clouds, lower and [are] ever depressing” (124) with the wind around her “that was sad too” (124). In parallel, she also observes her own room as “drowsy” (124) and “half-dark” (121). Her facial features itself appear “sad” (121) and is quoted to act and move “slow” (122), even while playing her piano, composing the notes to slip out “in mournful, sentimental succession”(122). Additionally, she often hears