Response to 1-900

In my opinion, this is the story of a man, John, whose wife had left him because of his over-bearing behavior.  He found her voice irritating, but in reality, he wanted her back.  She knew he was violent as was exhibited by his breaking down a door and his own sister and her husband throwing him out of their house.  In desperation, he calls a sex-line to talk to a woman. Rather than talk sex, as she wanted to, he is more turned on by the need to show his power over her.  He indicated that his wife and he drank and did drugs, but she thought he was “convoluted” and “morbid.”  I think the wife saw his violent nature and wanted him to stay as far as possible from her and their two children. In the process of talking to “Marilyn/Sharon”, the hostess on the sex-line, he exhibited this behavior as he pulls information from her.  She is unwilling at first, but slowly she told him far more information that she should have to a stranger who was calling for phone sex.  She never completely lets down her guard, although she does tell him her real name and information about herself.  In that position, John provided the reader with the ability to see that he wanted to be in charge of the situation, especially when he told her that his wife did not want to be a housewife, but asks “Marilyn/Sharon” is she does.  As the hostess realized that John is not normal and that the conversation has gotten her “spooked”, she declined to give out any more info and spoke to him, perhaps with irritation like his wife’s voice? and that she had to go.  As John let her know that he liked her voice sounding like that and questioned her that if he called again and asked for her, would they send him to her phone?  She no longer answered and hung up.  I believe that in using only the two characters to narrate the story, we see the development of what seemed like a shy man wanting phone sex, was really a perverted individual who was searching for someone to take the place of his wife who had left him due to his violent nature.