Eventually, someone does notice him, a woman who doesn’t seem to realize he’s a ghost.  Here the storytelling takes a strange turn as the narrator (who had seemed simply an anonymous third-person narrator) begins referring to himself and his former connection with the woman, his ex-wife.  The rest of the story follows this love triangle.  There are some hints of the Lemony Snicket persona in how this is told, including some puns in the final scene.  But because of how the story is set up, the puns aren’t groan-inducing but simply a natural part of the story.  The tension between the strangeness of Hank’s ghostly existence (both strange compared with real life and strange compared with other fictional treatments) and the more mundane aspects of love angle allow this story to linger.