The protagonist, an anti-hero, he has married the wrong person. The spouse, the antagonist, she is a difficult and habitual fault-finder; she has been undermining his and her own sanity for years. The protagonist has a job to oversee, monitor, and manage environmental destruction that uncontrollably seems to be leading to catastrophe, to a cataclysm. So his work has been dragging him down for some time. The dilemma that the story relates is that of an anti-hero who gets on with life as anyone might when backed up against the wall and with no reasonable way out. But there is an interest that...