As the title hints. The story is told from the wife’s point of view. Le Guin cleverly structures it this way because she does not want the reader to know what exactly is telling the story. At least not in the beginning. Using suspenseful narration and limited information she is able to deceive the reader, making it seem the story is about a human relationship. The Wife States “Anybody who saw him with the children would have known there wasn’t any bad in him.”(27) Generalizing him as a family man, with a good reputation in their society gives him human like qualities that also leads us to believe the wife is human as well. It is after the climax of the story in which the Wife yells out. “A grief howl and a terror howl and a calling howl