El Papa Siempre Tiene La Razón Analysis

In this short story “El Papá Siempre Tiene la Razón,” author Hans Christian Andersen quiet humorously tells a childhood story he heard over and over continually when he was little. He starts telling the story of how the Farmer and his wife lived in a really old farmhouse with moss and weeds on the roof, slanted walls, a stork nest decorated on the chimney and they owned a horse which was their prize possession. The farmer traded away their horse for a sack of rotten apples in a number of endless gains of bargains. A couple of Englishmen made a wager with the farmer knowing his wife will not like any of his deals. Then the wife agrees with her husband the farmer. Of course the Englishmen’s were amazed and paid up. It all started when the farmer

saw a man with a cow and decided to do a bargain even knowing that the horse costs more than cow but they swapped. He ran into a man with a sheep in good condition and made an exchange from a cow to a sheep. From there he saw a goose so he traded his sheep for a goose, from a goose for a hen and then turned over his hen for a sack of rotten apples. This story shows that when a woman is confident her husband can do no wrong, he still is the wisest man in the world and in her eyes whatever he does will always be right.