SETTING

The widow's little cottage provides us the moral as well as the physical setting for the tale. Her way of life provides a hint of ideal human, Christian behavior that leads to self-restraint and contentment. This is the world to which Chanticleer's boastful self-importance is connected, and the world to which the barnyard returns after the intrusion of the evil fox.

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