Personal Response Essay

The Wife's Story

In "The Wife's Story", the wife experiences several emotions. She feels happy first, then suspicious, and scared, finally sad.

At the beginning of this story, she used her husband's appearance to express her emotion which is she has a lovely husband and children. They live together happily. "Her husband is always gentle to everyone." But then she said that "the curse" was moon's fault. She felt suspicious because she discovered something strange from her husband. When he came back home, his body got some weird smell. " I was worried not so much that he went, but that he come back so tired and strange." Later, she felt scared because she saw the changes, when the full moon comes out, her husband will turn into a man. " They got long, each foot got longer, stretching out, the toes stretching out and the foot getting long, and fleshy, and white. And no hair on them. He stood up then on two legs."

Finally, her husband was killed by her sister. "My sister's teeth were in its throat, my sister rubbed her mouth against her forelegs over and over to get rid of the taste. Therefore, she felt so sad, because she lost her mate. Also, from this story, I know that sometimes we can't control some things that happen to us.