What is the meaning of "pastoral" in the following sentence:

my dad is there, too, hugging her from behind, and from the looks of it, they're somewhere rural-maybe some pastoral patch of small-town new jersey where they met.

in   ¨and yet the books¨   by czelaw miloz the tone is positive since it tells us that when we touch a book, it starts to live and the perspective is in the third person and turns once into the first person. in "the rhinoceros" by eugene ionesco the tone is illogical and absurd   and the perspective is in the third person since it is a play.