Characteristics And Characters In 'The Wife's Story'

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The Wife 's Story is a story about a pack of werewolves, and the husband turns into a strange creature; a vampire. Even though a normal werewolf transforms into a human, the husband in The Wife’s Story transforms into something totally different. The husband is a compulsive lying werewolf that is actually a vampire that is out to kill his family, but his plan turns on him.
The husband has been lying to his wife since they got married and she is worried about why he is doing this. A wife should not have to worry about why their husband smells disgusting either. In The Wife’s Story, the wife asks her husband where he is going. He lies and says, “Oh, hunting, be back this evening.” (Paragraph 4). The youngest child even gets scared from the way

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