Answer :
Foreshadowing is a literary technique which indicates what is about to happen later in the story. "The Wife's Story" by Ursula LeGuin is replete with examples of foreshadowing. Some examples of foreshadowing from the story have been mentioned below :
1. "Then one time when I was walking in the woods I met him by himself coming back from a hunting trip. He hadn’t got any game at all, not so much as a field mouse, but he wasn’t cast down about it." In these lines, the reference to a field mouse is quite out of place as a human would never even think of catching a field mouse on a hunting trip but a wolf most likely would catch one.
2. "Lodge Meeting nights, more and more often they had him to lead the singing. He had such a beautiful voice, and he’d lead off strong, and the others following and joining in, high voices and low. It brings the shivers on me now to think of it, hearing it, nights when I’d stayed home from meeting when the children was babies." These lines seem like a reference to howling that wolves do together.
3. "Even, he smelled strange. It made my hair stand up on end. I could not endure it and I said, “What is that — those smells on you? All over you!” And he said, “I don’t know,” real short, and made like he was sleeping. But he went down when he thought I wasn’t noticing, and washed and washed himself. But those smells stayed in his hair, and in our bed, for days." These lines clearly indicate that something tragic is going to happen very soon.
