Read and respond to “An Interview with My Husband,” given to you in class. Pay attention to the formalism of the piece: how does the piece borrow from/incorporate various forms of writing? What is the effect of using those forms in the story?

I thought it was an interesting use of form to record the conversations like an interview for most of the story.  The present conversation carries this vein of banter, but the content is pretty significant.  The bluntness of the interview style feels more revealing to the reader because it is set up as “objective”, merely a recording of events.  She does something similar with her memories.  It is still minimal as far as the dialogue is set up.  Without the brief narrative introducing the speaker’s reflections, the reader would still be able to tell the past tense because each participants name is preceded with “And”, but you are not given more specifics about how the speaker said something.  It relies heavily on what was said.