Interpreter of Maladies

"No one but Mr. Kapasi noticed. He watched as it rose, carried higher and higher by the breeze, into the trees where the monkeys now sat, solemnly observing the scene below."

I didn't really understand where this story was going at first. However, over time I began to understand the conflict in the story. Mr. Kapasi was very lonely. He had become used to his wife's coldness towards him. Because of his loneliness in his job and in his relationship he begins to wonder about a life with Mrs. Das. He planned out the relationship they would have and obsesses over little details about what could be and when her letter would come. At the end, his fairy tale of being with Mrs. Das disappears, just like the address. Also, the suspense and curiosity of what would happen with Mrs. Das and Mr. Kapasi the entire time kept the story interesting. The misunderstanding in Mrs. Das' understanding of what kind of interpreter Mr. Kapasi is lead to Mrs. Das assuming that Mr. Kapasi has everything figured out. Mrs. Das looks for Mr. Kapasi to have the answers to her problems, but this is not the case at all. In the end, nothing works out and Mr. Kapasi is still just as lonely as he began.