Generally, stories regarding mythological creatures are told from a human’s point of view as they disapprove of wolves, but Le Guin chooses to tell her story from a wolf’s perspective. This brings up the question of whether the human or animal element is the true form of a werewolf (Cohen). The suppressed animalistic traits of a human being are brought out during a werewolf’s transformation as he becomes a mixture of both human and beast. Likewise, the narrator’s husband was given human descriptions such as “gentle” and “sweet-tempered”, but these quickly became beastly descriptors of “hateful” and “cross” (Le
Generally, stories regarding mythological creatures are told from a human’s point of view as they disapprove of wolves, but Le Guin chooses to tell her story from a wolf’s perspective. This brings up the question of whether the human or animal element is the true form of a werewolf (Cohen). The suppressed animalistic traits of a human being are brought out during a werewolf’s transformation as he becomes a mixture of both human and beast. Likewise, the narrator’s husband was given human descriptions such as “gentle” and “sweet-tempered”, but these quickly became beastly descriptors of “hateful” and “cross” (Le