The feelings I get when reading this story changes over the course of the reading. Happy, sad, and confused all feelings that are explained by the ironic twist ending. Several details in the story led me to change my feelings about the story. Some of the changes led me to figure out the ending before it even happened. {{Thesis statement needed}}

During the beginning of the story the reader was led to believe the soldier with the locket had died. With this in mind the reader would be upset that the lovers won’t get to be together in the end. When the author started to foreshadow the ending to the story some people might have gotten confused. If the reader was paying close enough attention and was able to fallow along closely he or she could have figured out the ironic ending. …show more content…
The first detail that led me to believe Edmond had died was when the man with the locket died. The story goes on to show that Octavie is mourning the loss of Edmond. At this point in the story the author starts to foreshadow the ending.

I was first hinted to the ending when Octavie’s lovers father had told her to remove her mourning veil. This at the time made no sense to me because she should be mourning considering her lover had died. I only realized why he had her remove the veil when he said on such a beautiful spring day, one could almost believe in miracles. At this point in the story it had become clear that Edmond couldn’t be dead.

To me the ending of the story was predictable. I was only able to figure it out by paying attention to the story and close reading. With all of the foreshadowing I was able to predict that Edmond had never died before the story had even presented that to me. I overall enjoyed that story but was disappointed on how predictable the ending