This first person narrative by Marakami sets up the reader with a character who is nonchalant and very with his existence. Murakami tries to insert a sense of ambiguity when the main characters wife Kumiko calls but personally fails to completely draw in the reader with complete subjectivity. Murakami informs the reader by inserting past bibs of conversation between the husband and wife, also with the husbands reflections which seem to be his only interest and excitement. The husband seems sure of himself and his life situation with his wife and his pretentiousness.
The time line is slow paced and the structure serves no interest to continue. Murakami does use great paratatic and hypo-tactic sentences. There is a high stress of desire and passion on the wife's behalf and complete boredom,knowledge, and apathy that drags out through the entire passage. It is clear that it is solely the husbands choice to live the sad life he leads, and Murkami strains this passage with complete imagery using words that are obscure but exact dually to express the characters feelings.
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