Personal response

Title:

The Wife's Story

Author:

Ursula K. Le Guin

Genre:

Short story (science fiction)

Setting:

A small town near to the forest, woods, hill or(cave)

Point of View:

 firstperson's point of view

Main Character:

The wife, the husband, children, and the wife's sister.

Theme:

People always have uncontrollable impulse and unacceptable result of certain problem. (Example: A wolf turns into a man)

Literary device:

Foreshadowing (the use of clues in narractive to suggest events that have not yet happened), situational irony(an event that happens contrasts with what the character, the readers, or the audience expect), and suspense (the quality of a story that gives the reader a state of uncertainty that may make the reader feel anxious of eager to find out what will happen)

 

Mood:

Suspensful, sentimental, sad, spspicious.

Summary:

This story is told by the wife. Her husband used to be a good husband and good father. While husband married with the wife, the wife's sister is moved out. After the wife and her husband lived together, the wife found out a secret about her husband. Her husband turn into a wolf under the full moon. The husband hide the truth. Husband always told his wife that he is on the "hunting trip", but it is not true. Whenever he came back, he has a stranger smelling. The wife even saw the whole process of how the husband turn from a wolf to a man. She felt stranger. Finally, the husband was killed by the wife's sister. The wife's sister is also a wolf. The husband's death make the wife felt grief.