In Kate Chopin’s short story “The Locket”, such were described the events of a soldiers alleged death, and his young wife’s mourning his loss, only to find his death was none at all, only that the body of another had been misidentified. {{This is a run-on sentence. Please revise}} Throughout the story, such a fact remained in omission until the very end, wherefore such a twist of fate was revealed by the soldier to both his wife and the reader, and yet the surprise of this revelation was dimmed by the foreshadowing that laid forth its foundation. The dream described by the narrator in the first part of the story was the first indicator of something amiss, son {{soon}} followed by the description of the battlefield and the body found, followed …show more content…
The soldier was described to be little more than a boy, when it had already been established that Edmond was old enough to both have been married, and having been promoted several times through the ranks. He was described to have been in a few battles already, and not unfamiliar with war. Such facts bring into question how the body with his locket, being so young, could have possibly been him. Moving even further than that is the description of the clothing, for although the description of the body’s clothing was minimal, the fact the locket was on the outside of his shirt and in plain view was already questionable given that Edmond wore two shirts, one of flannel, and another of gray cloth in line with the Confederate soldiers’ attire. Edmond was careful to button his shirt, or both his shirts, to conceal the locket, and although he may have participated in the battle that the young soldier died in, it seems unlikely that his shirt would open and his locket come out. And yet even if it did, given how Edmond’s character was so described to be sentimental, he undoubtedly would have opened the locket upon his death to look upon what he called “(Octavie’s) most prized possession”. Though such things cannot be definitely determined by any other than the author herself, based on the characterization of Edmond, these are at the very least