The wife describes her husband as being a great father, and everyone would agree. As demonstrated the text states, “I snapped the end of it in my teeth and started to force my way out, because I knew the man would kill our children if he could”(Le Guin 7, lines 108-110).This quote shows how the wife was so wrong about her husband, thinking that he would always be good to her and there kids, and how she should have recognized otherwise. In all, there are many literary elements, and one big one is characterization. In the short story, “The Wife’s Story,” by Ursula K. Le Guin, she uses characterization to help develop the central idea. By using characterization, it helps to show how people should try to see people for what they really are, and not what you want them to be by giving many sides to a character. By showing the different sides to the husband it shows how much the wife only saw him one way. Ergo, characterization helps develop the central idea, in the short story by Ursula Le Guin, by helping the reader further understand it, and gives the reader many examples of
The wife describes her husband as being a great father, and everyone would agree. As demonstrated the text states, “I snapped the end of it in my teeth and started to force my way out, because I knew the man would kill our children if he could”(Le Guin 7, lines 108-110).This quote shows how the wife was so wrong about her husband, thinking that he would always be good to her and there kids, and how she should have recognized otherwise. In all, there are many literary elements, and one big one is characterization. In the short story, “The Wife’s Story,” by Ursula K. Le Guin, she uses characterization to help develop the central idea. By using characterization, it helps to show how people should try to see people for what they really are, and not what you want them to be by giving many sides to a character. By showing the different sides to the husband it shows how much the wife only saw him one way. Ergo, characterization helps develop the central idea, in the short story by Ursula Le Guin, by helping the reader further understand it, and gives the reader many examples of