"Disguised"

The story "Disguised" starts with a foreshadowing hook "When Temerl stood under the wedding canopy she surely did not know that in less than half a year she would be an abandoned wife". Temerl's husband Pinchosl abandons Temerl, he sneaks out one night and never returns. The author also gives us physical descriptions of Pinchosl "because he was small and slight" as well as behavioral tendencies "neither did he chase women. He barely looked at Temerl when he lifted the veil from her face on the wedding night". When the author gets to the climax in the story where Temerl finds Pinchosl dressed as a woman, the reader gets that "oh that makes senses moment".

The author has written this story in third person point of view, omniscient. He gives us a small view point of her mother and father when Temerl is determined to go look for Pinchosl, and even a small bit of Pinchosl's. But the majority of the story is in Temerl's view of what happened.

The plot of the story itself is the conflict between Temerl and Pinchosl, because Pinchosl abandoned her she was forbidden by law to move forward in her life. Pinchosl himself had moved on and was living as a woman with this lover and was seen as married by his community. Although I think the biggest conflict in this story was Pinchosl, his desire to keep his faith and please his family was at war with his love for Elkonah. He knew that God would ultimately punish him for living his faith as a woman with another man but he could not stop himself.