The setting of this story is in the 16th century. The people and the culture seem to be very sophisticated and well developed. They also have a large vocabulary so the way that they speak is also very sophisticated.
Antonio is the merchant of Venice the gong that worrys him early on is that he is very sad and depressed and he has to no clue why he is sad.
Bassanio ask Antonio for some money so that he can go and see this girl and impress her too. And Antonio has money but dosent have any money on him so he tells bassanio to see how much money he can get with his credit and e can have that money.
The thing that portia decides to do to solve her problem is she ask one of her maids to go over all of the men in the kingdom and ask her waht the maid thinks of them.
