After reading the short story "The Blind Man" written by Guy de Maupassant  I am absolutely convinced that it's a masterpiece both from the literary point of view and from the point of morality and the truth of life. 

Analysing the piece of writing I should start with the setting of the story that is the place and the time of the events described. 

The author doesn't indicate directly the place where the events are developing, I mean we can't find any geographical name or at least an approximate region. No doubt, it was done intentionally because it shows that the events described can be found in any place of the world. The only indication of a place is that it is a country place and the characters live in a farmhouse. 

Concerning the time of the story, it's not indicated in any way either. Only judging from the author's manner of writing (I mean he usually wrote about the contemporary time and described events that were close to him) we can say that it is the 19th century.

Taking everything into consideration I think that in this very story time and place do not play a very important role. The things described here are of universal character and reading this story the reader should think about himself and the time and the place he lives in.