Comparing Goldfish And The Wife's Story

In the short stories “What of this Goldfish, Would You Wish,” and “The Wife’s Story,” by Elgar Karet and Ursulu K. LeGun, respectively, and the majority of the opinion by Justice Brennan, ”Texas v. Johnson,” characters or people do not show acceptance of others who are different. In the “Goldfish” story a young man from Israel named Yonatan decided to make a documentary of him going door-to-door to ask strangers what they would wish upon if they had a goldfish that could grant them three wishes. When going door-to-door he came across a Jewish refugee from Russia named Sergei Goralick who freaked out because he actually owned a magical goldfish that granted him wishes. Sergei eventually killed Yonatan and his last wish was to revive him. In “The Wife’s Story” we are led to believe that the narrator is a human watching her husband turn into a wolf but towards the end we are given the plot twist that the narrator …show more content…
The wife criticizes her husband now that she realizes he is turning into a human. Her natural instincts led her to believe that he is cruel just like every human being is to wolves. In the wife’s story, the narrator states, “He stood up then on two legs. I saw him, I had to see him, my own dear love, turned into the hateful one”. This proves the wife does not express acceptance towards her husband, because she is a wolf and he is a human. The wife is initially scared for her life, because of her husband. She calls her wolf pack for assistance and watches her sister attack him. In the same story, the narrator says, “But my sister was already coming. I saw her running at the man with her head low and her mare high and her eyes yellow as the winter sun”. This shows the wife has no acceptance towards her husband, therefore she sent her wolf pack to attack him. The wife’s issue of disrespecting her husband is based on her natural beliefs that humans kill