Details That Reveal Setting: Short Fiction Practice Test

In the following excerpt from a short story, a young man waits at a bus station after missing the last bus home:

The station’s benches were slick with condensation, and the vending machine’s lights made the puddles shine. Above him, the timetable display showed a scrolling error message, the same two words repeating like a stutter, and on the wall a map of routes had been scratched so badly the river looked like a wound. A janitor pushed a mop that left a clean stripe through the grime, but the stripe filled in again as people walked, and outside the glass doors the city’s sirens sounded distant, as if they belonged to someone else’s night.

What do the bolded setting details most strongly suggest about the character’s predicament?

In the following excerpt from a short story, a woman visits a friend’s new suburban home and feels unexpectedly uneasy:

The street was so quiet she could hear sprinklers ticking. Each lawn was cut to the same height, and the mailboxes matched. Inside, the living room smelled of new carpet and vanilla candles. On the mantel, family photos were arranged in identical frames, but the glass still wore price stickers at the corners, and in the kitchen a bowl of decorative lemons sat perfectly yellow, though their skins were too smooth to be real. Through the sliding door, a backyard trampoline sat unused, its black mat holding a shallow puddle like an unblinking eye.

What do the bolded setting details most strongly suggest about the woman’s discomfort?