The Wifes Story
THE WIFE’S STORY
The Wife’s Story by Ursula K. Le Guin is a story about a woman married to a man who turns out to be a werewolf. In this tale Le Guin reverses the typical werewolf story into the point of view of other wolves. She tells the story in a first person narrative which is very effective. The narrator’s voice in this story changes the ways you will normally respond to any other story. The Wife’s Story is not the typical werewolf story you would expect.
In Le Guin’s story she describes a wife's retrospective of what she should have seen in her husband before it was "too late." She describes suspicious behaviors that lead the reader to understand that he is a werewolf. She realizes that her husband changes at the dark of the moon into a human. The way she describes this werewolf is very different than the usual werewolf story. The werewolf has white skin with no hair like a worm, eyes blue with white rims around the blue, mouth flat and wide, and teeth flat and dull. This is quite unusual for a werewolf to look which makes this story more interesting.
I believe Le Guin chose to write this story with a first person narrator because it is more effective to the reader. In the first paragraph of The Wife’s Story says, “I don’t believe it happened. I saw it happen but it isn’t true. It can’t be. He was always gentle”. This shows the wife’s emotions after she discovers her husband is a werewolf. She is confused and still feels everything is unreal. Le Guin’s choice of writing this story in a first person narrative keeps the reader interested and motivated to keep reading.
The narrator’s voice in The Wife’s Story affects how the reader responds to the story because of the tone the narrator uses telling her experience discovering her husband’s secret. In this story, Le Guin helps the reader relate to the wife and how she was married to a werewolf without knowing it. She was in love with a man, or that’s what she thought, who was so kind and others would look up
The Wife’s Story by Ursula K. Le Guin is a story about a woman married to a man who turns out to be a werewolf. In this tale Le Guin reverses the typical werewolf story into the point of view of other wolves. She tells the story in a first person narrative which is very effective. The narrator’s voice in this story changes the ways you will normally respond to any other story. The Wife’s Story is not the typical werewolf story you would expect.
In Le Guin’s story she describes a wife's retrospective of what she should have seen in her husband before it was "too late." She describes suspicious behaviors that lead the reader to understand that he is a werewolf. She realizes that her husband changes at the dark of the moon into a human. The way she describes this werewolf is very different than the usual werewolf story. The werewolf has white skin with no hair like a worm, eyes blue with white rims around the blue, mouth flat and wide, and teeth flat and dull. This is quite unusual for a werewolf to look which makes this story more interesting.
I believe Le Guin chose to write this story with a first person narrator because it is more effective to the reader. In the first paragraph of The Wife’s Story says, “I don’t believe it happened. I saw it happen but it isn’t true. It can’t be. He was always gentle”. This shows the wife’s emotions after she discovers her husband is a werewolf. She is confused and still feels everything is unreal. Le Guin’s choice of writing this story in a first person narrative keeps the reader interested and motivated to keep reading.
The narrator’s voice in The Wife’s Story affects how the reader responds to the story because of the tone the narrator uses telling her experience discovering her husband’s secret. In this story, Le Guin helps the reader relate to the wife and how she was married to a werewolf without knowing it. She was in love with a man, or that’s what she thought, who was so kind and others would look up