The Time Traveler's Wife Summary

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger is a science fiction love story published by MacAdam/Cage in 2003. This book is about a time traveler’s relationship with a woman throughout his life.

The author’s purpose was to write a metaphor of her failed relationship in love. The book tells love romance and misunderstanding between a time traveler and a normal woman. It starts from when the time traveler, Henry meets Clare at a city library in Chicago. Although Henry (twenty-eight at the time) had never met Clare (twenty at the time), Clare is excited to see him because she had known him throughout her life. They go on a dinner together and Clare shows all of her records of Henry. He astonishes at them and start to favor Clare as a woman.

Then Henry recalls his first-time travel. His time travel is usually caused by stress, and when he was five,

He spends time with Clare until he accidentally time travels to Clare’s past and get shot by her brother Mark when Mark was hunting. In chapter three, after Henry’s death, Clare finds a letter to advise not to wait for him and go on to her new life. On the same letter, he also writes that he once met an old woman. Although Alba says that she met Henry a lot, Henry does not come to see Clare. Clare waits for all of her life to see Henry, and when she is 82 years old, she finally meets him.

I think that the best part of the story was when Henry and Clare got married. Just before Henry needed to swear his love towards Clare He just disappears in the middle of nowhere. Of course, he gets nervous and despair about his future since he thought that this disappearance will impress Clare’s family in a terrible way. However, the old version of Henry calms him down by saying that the old version remembers swearing love with Clare. Although the younger version of Henry stays at the older version for five days without meeting Clare, he thinks that he need to cherish his