Tool Box Review of "Demolition"

I read a short story from The New Yorker entitled Demolition, about a young man and his affair with the much older town doctor, C. The tale spans the course of more than a decade and revolves around how this tryst shapes his life. As far a structure is concerned Demolition is relayed in first-person narrative by the nameless main character and told in chronological order. And there is a recurring theme throughout: death. The most obvious representation of the theme is the fact that He works at a cemetery for almost the entire duration of the story, his father passes away (of old age), and C's general contractor husband Ted is killed by bees. The more subtle representations are the eventual destruction of the home He and his father lived in and finally the end of his affair with C. Even the title of the work is indicative of death.
The voice of the piece is ironic, at times humorous, reflective. It is a kind of introspective flashback about the "unbearable weight of human sexual love."
The tone of the piece was intimate and real.
I don't have much to say about diction. The vocabulary was poetic; both simple and complex. The syntax was pretty standard.
I thoroughly enjoyed Demolition and I whole-heartedly recommend that anyone else read it.