LITERARY LOG

TITLE-The Wife’s Story

AUTHOR- Ursula K. Le Guin

GENERE- Science fiction short story

SETTING- Woods

POINT OF VIEW- First person of view

MAIN CHARACTERS- Wife, husband, sister, and children

LITERARY ELEMENTS- Foreshadowing and Irony

SUMMARY- This story is about a wolf family. In this story the husband was a very good father and husband. The wife felt in love with this fellow because he was very handsome. The husband was the best singer in the lodge. The wife’s feelings about him adored. Then her husband use to come home late. The wife becomes worried about him. After "hunting" trips,the husband came home smelling strange. Even the youngest child becomes afraid of him because she senses the change in him. One night the wife saw her husband turning to the hateful one. She saw him changing into a man. The wife responds with shock and dismay to her husband’s transformation mainly because it means he has become the enemy. At the end of the story the sister killed him because he became a man and they were wolves.