#70 The Toymaker and his Wife- Joanne Harris
“There was a man who married for love, but lived to repent
at leisure.” What a great opening line!
This is very short and clever story about a Toymaker. He
makes perfect mechanical objects that seem lifelike. Eventually he starts to
remake his wife, replacing her “imperfect” parts with new ones. He replaces he
graying hair, her insolent tongue, her judging eyes, her clumsy hands,
etc. One by one he replaces everything
about her, all except her broken heart…that he cant fix.
This reads like a short fairy tale. It could have come right
out of a Brother’s Grimm collection.
Notable Passage: “The wife said nothing but looked at
herself in her dressing-room mirror, and touched the bright, stiff strands of
her hair, and remembered a time when he had thought she was perfect in every
way.”
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