The wife experiences emotions in the whole story of "The Wife's Story" by Ursula K. Le Guin. They can be considered in four stages: happy, suspicious, scared and sad.

At the beginning of the story, she was happy in love with her husband. She said: "I can say is, it was the happy year of my life. He was just purely god at me." She was suspicious when he came back so tried and strange that happened may three times or four. It describes in this way, "It wasn't like him, even his voice was different. Even, he smelled strange." She was scared and worried when he turned into a man, which is her enemy, and never turned back. She said: "I couldn't move, but as is crouched there in the passage staring out into the day I was trembling and shaking with a growl that burst out into a crazy, awful howling." She was sad when he was dead, because she still loves him even he is her enemy. It said liked this way, "I went up close because I thought if the ting was dead the spell, the curse must be done, and my husband could come back - alive, or even dead, if I could only see him, my true love, in his true form, beautiful."

Ursula K. Le Guin uses the method of the wife experiences those emotions in the story, because she wants to make her characterization more powerful.

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