Struggle with wife in scene (4)
I believe the answer is:
view
'scene' is the definition.
('view' can be a synonym of 'scene')
'struggle with wife' is the wordplay.
'struggle' becomes 'vie' (I've seen this before).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'wife' becomes 'w'.
'vie'+'w'='VIEW'
'in' is the link.
(Other definitions for view that I've seen before include "extent of visibility" , "Range or field of vision" , "Judge" , "belief" , "Sight - opinion" .)