In “The Judge’s Wife” the author, Isabel Allende, uses a variety of techniques to make full use of the limited space within her short story. By using strong imagery, providing a background, providing believable human actions, and examining justice, M. Allende creates a piece readers can understand to the point of empathy. Because her short story examines human behavior in respect to passions, justice, and emotion (love) in a plausible manner one can find …showed first 75 words of 1396 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1396 total…of the character. The author adds another dimension to the side of her main character by including background history. In combining all of these tools the characters are given a realistic overtone that makes this short story easy for the reader to consume and enjoy. Bibliography Allende, Isabel; “The Judge’s Wife;” The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature (Fourth Edition); pg 422- 427; Bedford Books; Boston, MA; 1997 Shelly, Mary; Frankenstein; Penguin Group; New York, New York; 1983