Short story setting and character

My short story takes place in the near future (so that no one will deny its plausibility), in an ambiguous setting. The reason for this is that I do not want to single out any one location as a more probable setting for this story than any other. However, I will write the story so that there are some detail that can be determined about the location of the story. The main character lives in a small isolated village of around 100 inhabitants. On the outskirts of the village sits a very creepy chemical plant that automatically inspires feelings of “this does not belong here” in most of those who see it. Leading out of the village is a dark road that passes through a thick wood over a bridge. Set into the side of a hill by the stream is the house where my devil-character lives. The main character lives alone in a house in the middle of the town, and works in a city about twenty miles away. On the day the story takes place, it rains unceasingly from dawn to dusk, and flooding roads cause the main character to be unable to leave the town, beginning the story’s plot.

In my short story, the devil takes on a form similar to both the form in Paradise Lost and that of the modern consensus, (i.e. “Sympathy for the Devil”). Tas goal is, as it is in Paradise Lost (and sometimes in the Bible) to corrupt humanity. Ta tries to accomplish this goal through many diverse methods, and takes on many forms. Ta can take on the form of a human, and is very convincing in tas emulations. In order to be more realistic, ta can create completely different personalities for tas different forms. However, these constructed personalities dissipate in times of stress, and tas true self appears. (This is the only way the main character is able to figure out who exactly he is dealing with.) However, unlike the devil in Paradise Lost, my character will not be nearly as powerful, and although I will reveal that the reason for this is that tas work in the main character’s hometown is only one of several “projects” ta is working on, and thus ta is not able to concentrate much energy on the main character. However, the main character will still find tam a formidable opponent and rebuffing tam to be difficult.

Art

Art can serve very many diverse purposes. Most of the time, it serves a purpose connected in some way with emotion. It can serve simply as a personal release of emotion for its creator. It can also convey its creator's emotion to its viewers. Most of the poems we have studied in class probably have fallen into one of these two categories. Sometimes, the artist creates the art for a specific purpose, whether to rally the public after a loss, or to convey some of the artist's experiences to those who do not share them (like the poem "110 Stories" that we read). Thus art can have a practical purpose as well as a purely artistic one. Some art, however, does not stem from the artist's emotion, but, rather, is intended to incite emotion on the part of its audience. For example although Beethoven's "Pathetique" Sonata often causes emotion in its listeners, I  doubt that Beethoven was feeling those same emotions as he wrote it, if only because music of that quality usually requires too much planning to be composed on a whim. Then again, given who he was, it is actually quite possible, even probable, that he wrote it spontaneously. Anyway, whether this piece is an example or not, it is true that for some art, emotion is the goal, not the source.
There is also a second main purpose of art (emotion was the first): creativity. Not all art comes from or creates emotion. Some art is simply created for its own sake, or for the sake of novelty and wonder. Quite a lot of music fall under this category, as does some twentieth-century visual art, like the painting above: Yves Tanguy's The Ribbon of Excess. These works of art perpetually amaze their audiences, who marvel at the ingenuity and creativity of the artists. Therefore, actually, this art, too, inspires emotion among its viewers, this time emotions of worder and amazement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Ford
http://www.all-about-beethoven.com/patetica.html
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists-a-z/T/6084/artistName/Yves%20Tanguy/recordId/24051