TITLE-
The Wife’s StoryAUTHOR-
Ursula K. Le GuinGENERE-
Science fiction short storySETTING-
WoodsPOINT OF VIEW
- First person of viewMAIN CHARACTERS
- Wife, husband, sister, and childrenLITERARY ELEMENTS
- Foreshadowing and IronySUMMARY-
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.