The Locket By Kate Chopin Analysis

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The Locket is a short story written by Kate Chapin, Kate Chapin was a young women who married a man named Oscar Chapin, together they settled in Louisiana, were most of the culture influenced Kate Chapin’s novels. Oscar Chapin died in 1883, and Kate Chapin started to write many short stories and novels that were published in magazines. Due to Oscar Chapin’s death, Kate Chapin’s novels all have a similar theme of loss and suffering.
The short story, The Locket, was displayed during the Civil War between the slave states, and the Free states during 1861 to 1865. The story starts out on a hill during battle; Edmond is reading a letter that was written from Octavie, Edmond’s Lover. A battle breaks out, and Edmond dies, and a priest takes the

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