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The Wedding Knell Literary Analysis

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Throughout the story “The Wedding Knell,” there are various themes introduced. One major theme addressed is expect the unexpected. Another is you always leave a piece of you behind in a relationship. These two themes are related to each other throughout the story as Mrs. Dabney has been a widow twice. While on her last wedding a bell went off for a funeral knell while she was walking in the Church doors. Even though Mrs. Dabney is in a loving environment, happy place at the beginning of the story, it seems to go downhill with an unknown bell to come along and disrupt the wedding.The wedding knells would provide a happy and serene atmosphere for the wedding, but this is no ordinary wedding. Not only does she continuing walking into this mysterious
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