At the beginning of the story the Wife's emotions were love and happiness for example:"for it was the happy year of my life. He was just purely good to me. A hard worker and never lazy, and so big and fine-looking." Later, she was suspicious, she said. "Even, he smelled strange" confused, "our youngest, the little one, my baby she turned from her father just overnight. He come in and she got scared-looking, stiff, with her eyes wide, and then begun to cry and try to hide behind me." She was sad at the end, because the man turning into a wolf, but a wolf turning into a man. My sister’s teeth were in its throat. I got there and it was dead, the others was drawing back from the kill, because of the taste of the blood, and the smell." Therefor, this a scare and surprise story and the wife experiences those emotions in the story.