Foreshadowing In The Locket

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In the short story, The Locket, the ending was very surprising to me. The beginning of the short story led me to think that Edmond was dead from battle and the priest took the locket and letter from Octavie. Octavie was wearing black clothes and she was in mourning. When Octavie started to feel like everybody around her wasn’t real. She then saw Edmond and realized that he wasn’t killed in battle. Octavie then believed that everything was okay and she began to feel happy.

When I read through the story, there was a lot of foreshadowing. The irony that appeared in the story was when Edmond got murdered in battle. I thought that when Edmond got killed, Octavie was going to be suffering from her loss of her true love. But by the end of the

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