In Grace Paley’s short story “Wants”, she takes the reader through two different journeys. The first path is the action and the conversation with her ex-husband that leaves the narrator on the same physical steps. The other path is the inner voice of the narrator that talks bout past, present, recollection, and regret. The ex-husband’s tone with the narrator is quite brief that allows the reader to see that he is not a forgiving or forgetful person. At the beginning of the story the narrator greets her ex-husband as her “life”, he then replied to her by saying “What? What life? No life of mine.” This response denies her feelings and he goes on trying to blame her for the divorce. The interaction with the librarian is much different than the
