This study deals with conflicts between husband and wife, focusing particularly on the "personal flaws" of the heavenly maiden and the means by which these conflicts are eventually resolved. Also, based on actual cases, the possibility of using literary therapy to resolve real-life problems is explored. The findings include the following: First, the conflicts arising from the personal flaws of the heavenly maiden begin when she refuses to accept the changes required of her as a woodcutter's wife. Although she married him, she misses her former life in heaven and thinks only of returning to her heavenly home as soon as she recovers her flying dress. Therefore, she is unwilling to adjust to her married situation or compromise with her husband, and eventually this interferes with communication between husband and wife. Second, when she returns to heaven after regaining the flying dress, she finds her status changed because of her "sins" of marrying a human being and having his children. These sins incur her father's hatred, but when the woodcutter follows his family to heaven to live with them, the heavenly wife begins to support her husband positively and place her loyalty to him above peripheral issues. Thus, the conflicts caused by her rejection of changes on earth are resolved by her new willingness to change her perspective and her behavior. Third, this study explores the possibilities of utilizing the story of the woodcutter and the heavenly wife in literary therapy. Real-life cases in which the wife is unwilling to change or compromise often resemble the condition of the heavenly maiden; thus, similarities can be identified and presented concretely. In other words, applying the methods the heavenly maiden used to resolve conflict in the fable can lead to open discussion and possible resolution of conflict in real-life cases.

This study deals with conflicts between husband and wife, focusing particularly on the "personal flaws" of the heavenly maiden and the means by which these conflicts are eventually resolved. Also, based on actual cases, the possibility of using literary therapy to resolve real-life problems is explored. The findings include the following: First, the conflicts arising from the personal flaws of the heavenly maiden begin when she refuses to accept the changes required of her as a woodcutter's wife. Although she married him, she misses her former life in heaven and thinks only of returning to her heavenly home as soon as she recovers her flying dress. Therefore, she is unwilling to adjust to her married situation or compromise with her husband, and eventually this interferes with communication between husband and wife. Second, when she returns to heaven after regaining the flying dress, she finds her status changed because of her "sins" of marrying a human being and having his children. These sins incur her father's hatred, but when the woodcutter follows his family to heaven to live with them, the heavenly wife begins to support her husband positively and place her loyalty to him above peripheral issues. Thus, the conflicts caused by her rejection of changes on earth are resolved by her new willingness to change her perspective and her behavior. Third, this study explores the possibilities of utilizing the story of the woodcutter and the heavenly wife in literary therapy. Real-life cases in which the wife is unwilling to change or compromise often resemble the condition of the heavenly maiden; thus, similarities can be identified and presented concretely. In other words, applying the methods the heavenly maiden used to resolve conflict in the fable can lead to open discussion and possible resolution of conflict in real-life cases.

Key Words : the woodcutter and the heavenly wife, a conflicts between husband and wife, literary therapy