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A title page frames a marriage autobiography between autumn 1970 and spring 1974, with a Joyce-like aside about self and other.

The page is only a title apparatus, but it places the Monroe material inside a retrospective marital frame. The parenthetical nod toward James Joyce and 'Us' makes the private history feel literary and doubled from the start.

"Autobiography Of A Marriage" declares a four-year marital span and links it, parenthetically, to James Joyce and Us.

As a title page, it matters structurally rather than narratively. It tells the reader that the domestic material is being organized after the fact as autobiography, and that the story of marriage will also be a story of literary self-consciousness.