What We Talk About (Reader Response 12)

In What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, I loved the dimension of the characters far more than I liked the dialogue.  The narrator, Deb's husband, perceived his wife's guests in an interesting way and his perspective made for an interesting representation of their situation.
One of my favorite parts of the story was how the husband continues to refer to Shoshana and Yerucham as Lauren and Mark, a choice which makes each piece of dialogue feel like part of a conflict between him and his guest, and their choices and his own.  This comes as an indictor of his personality and reveals a form of discomfort he feels in being surrounded by these people as he cannot adjust to their names, or anything else bout them.
His emotion in the story takes the main stage and shows us this discomfort and takes the reader along with him as he learns things about his wife, her friends, and his son at the same time the reader does.  The dialogue and the information revealed within, as well as the perspective he shares between these moments, portrays our narrator as a man who is an outside in his own home and his own family, which made for an intriguing point of view in such a dialogue driven piece.