What is the relationship between the setting and the characters in a story

the relationship is that the character or characters has to adapt, live, or change do to his or her surrounding the setting is what sets the mood for protagonist

Well, if I were to take a guess it'd likely be the way everything balances from one scene to another.

If you think about it a certain way, you'll realize that your charectors actually set the stage for your setting.

You can't have a story without someone to tell it, so look at the fictional charecters as the ones reading it.

I hope this helped with your question. :)

I'd be happy to help with more.

the answer is bags.

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.