Marriage on the Rocks: New Yorker story

The New Yorker continues its hot streak within another good story in current edition, this one by Paul LaFarge (Another Life), an author whom I don't know though the LaFarges are a long-time artistic and literary Rhode Island family (one of w,hom wrote reviews for me at the Journal back in the day, if I can recall correctly); this story has some real narrative verve, as it's told essentially in three or four very long paragraphs, each of which packs in quite a bit of information and dialogue - usually I move away from stories or novels (often European and self-consciously "experimental" - Saramago, et al) that use extremely long paragraphs, but Lafarge uses them to good effect, to keep the story moving rather than to slow it down and examine everything in minute detail (Proust - one of my favorites, but not know as a master of the short form to put it mildly). In brief, Another Life is about a guy in with low self-esteem (an unpublished writer who thinks at times his work is too difficult for the commonplace reader) with a teaching job for which he seems to have contempt - heading from New York to Boston for party for father-in-law, which brings up many issues of his failure as a husband; wife is a pediatrician, no children. Apparently wife is still very much in thrall to father and his dicta. Man identified only as "the husband" - leaves party early, returns to hotel, goes to bar, flirts with "Pretty Bartender," wife later comes to bar, man id'd as "sleazy" sits next to her, wife apparently leaves with sleazy - leaving husband alone - later to flirt with Pretty Bartender and invite her out for a drink. In short tight space we get an Albeeish look at a marriage on the rocks, at two (or certainly one) selfish and self-centered people, very privileged and fortnate yet bitter and full of loathing. I do have quibbls with the story however, notably, LaFarge does very good job sketching in portrait of "Pretty Bartender," yet for all that - why would she make herself so available to a nasty, drunk, older, married guy like The Husband? She wouldn't - male fantasy only. There is very nice twist at end of story (spoiler), but a not sure I would accept that this story would be written by the Bartender - it's totally a male POV story, hers would be very different.