A sharp, revealing contrast between two William Trevor stories

Another set of William Trevor stories in his "Selected Stories" makes for a sharp contrast and reveals something about his thinking and his style: On the Street is an unusual story for Trevor, alternating in sections between the point of view of a man and his ex-wife, the man we see right away as a clearly disturbed person (unusal for Trevor's fiction), and as to the wife the question is why would she ever have been married to this guy? As the story progresses, we learn about the loneliness in her life that led to her ill-considered decision to marry him (she was widowed) and how she realizes almost immediately that the marriage is doomed. This story is a little less successful than most when Trevor tries to wrap it up and make a grander statement about the lives of these two people - it seems closely modeled on the powerful ending paragraph in Sacred Statues, but in this case the authorial observation that Trevor sometimes employs at the end - as if he's zooming away from the characters to a near-Godlike perspective (i.e., the author's) is a bit forced. The next story in the selection, The Dancing Master's Music, is more typically Trevor, in the Chekhov mode: a moment of grace and beauty touches the life of a young woman and changes her life for ever, subtly and internally rather than dramatically: she hears the beautiful music (she had never even heard a piano) and always recalls it, but she doesn't give up her life as a kitchen maid to enroll in Juilliard or anything. This story, unlike Street, covers a whole life span, another one of Trevor's novels in miniature.