The narrator spends most of the story discussing male homosexuality and heterosexuality. He doesn't bring up lesbianism in which feeling is exalted above all else until the latter part of the story and doesn't mention that his wife is such a woman until virtually the very end.
這篇小說裡，「我」表面上主要都在議論男同性戀及異性戀，一直到小說的最後部分，才帶出唯情至上的女同性戀者，並且在快要結束時，才告訴我們說，他的妻子正是這樣的人。