A Loss Of Her Husband Exposed In The Wife's Story

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In Ursula K. Lenguin's short story "The Wife's Story" narrates the wife's thoughts and experiences as her husband slowly turns into someone she doesn't recognize. Lenguin uses metaphors to retell a harrowing event from the perspective of a wife. "The Wife's Story" indicates that you can grieve a loss that hasn't happened. You can miss something that you have yet to lose. How injustice is always one sided. It represents this thesis as the wife mourns her husband while he is in front of her, becoming someone she doesn't know.
The Wife gives voice to a quote that unsettled me. “My own dear love, turned into a hateful one.” How she vocalizes that quote in such a simple manner representing the Wife’s silent struggle with slowly losing her husband.