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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 …

…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