Discussion At First, when Poe wrote this short tale he called it "Life in Death" but later he changed its title to "The Oval Portrait" .As an overall picture or a summary for the plot of the story, the setting is in an abandoned chateau in Apennines, Italy. ... He also finds a volume discussing about this picture which starts like this: "She was a maiden of rarest beauty, and not more lovely than full of glee. ...

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