The Real Motive of Abandonment Vladimir Nabokov short story “That in Aleppo Once…” presents a man who brings forth himself victim on his own tragic romantic misfortune. The protagonist, a writer who currently resides in New York, writes to an ambiguous yet close companion about his struggles with love, regret, and abandonment through strenuous times in Europe. The story takes form of a letter written by a Russian émigré in Central Park to his fellow …showed first 75 words of 1228 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1228 total…woman who needed a temporary companion for her beneficial means. Or even a misunderstood writer who feels abandoned by his wife for another “brute” man. But through the evidence of his writing it is clear by the narrator’s actions on who started the parting ways of the relationship, which we are forced to accept the general account given to us by the narrator of an older, jealous man married to a capricious young woman.