The husband is perplexed in the short story “The Disappearance” of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, as he does not see how his past actions could make his wife unhappy in her life with him (there are no names associated to the characters in this story). The husband is the protagonist of the story. The story is unclear as to why the wife left not only her husband, but also her son. The reason for this is that the author uses a third-person narrative that focuses on the future of the protagonist husband. However, as the story continues, the writing reveals that the wife left the protagonist husband for the reasons that he reveals to be boring, inconsiderate, demanding and all about himself, as the author establishes with the narration in third person centered on the protagonist. The husband is able to provide for the family with an office position, logically his intellect is not in question; his emotional stability has been defiantly compromised. This then leads the author to rely on the husband's point of view to divulge the key components of the story using a third-person narrative. For a year the husband thought his wife had been kidnapped, yet he never checked her belongings to see if anything was missing. Just because the mother needed additional spices, the husband checked the jewelry which he advised the wife to put in the upper cabinet in case there was an intruder (1995, p. 587). Once the missing jeweler was discovered, the husband knew that his wife had abandoned not only him, but also their young son. The author's high level of expertise in using third-person narration from the protagonist husband's point of view shows that he was oblivious to the fact that his wife was ver...... middle of paper ..... .su and wife. In conclusion, the author's choice to use third-person narration is what provided the high level of ignorance, as a voice focused on the protagonist husband. It brought the reader to the point of how the husband treated his wife poorly and how he was unaware of how his actions affected her. The reader is also able to imagine that the protagonist is not aware that he is not being honest with himself. It allows the reader to realize how boring, prideful, inconsiderate, and insensitive the protagonist is overall. Reference Divakaruni, C. B. (1995). "The disappearance." Compact literature: read, react, write. (pp. 584-589). Boston, MA: Wadsworth Publishing Company. Kirszner, L. G., & Mandell, S. R. (2012). Compact literature: read, react, write. (8 ed.). Boston, MA: Wadsworth Publishing Company.