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

Point of View:

First person

Main character:

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

Theme:

People always have uncontrollable impulse and unacceptable result of certain problem.

Literary device:

Foreshadowing, situational irony, and suspense

Mood:

Suspenseful, sentimental, sad, suspicious

Summary:

This story is told about 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 secret about her husband. Her husband turns into a wolf under the full moon. The husband hides the truth. The 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 turns 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.