This paper aims to analyze the ethical problem between the protagonist, the husband, and his wife in Kobo Abe' s Novel The Face of Another, focusing on the fact that the means by which communication is carried out between the couple, as the form in this novel, are three pieces of handwritten notebooks from the husband and a letter from his wife. The handwritten notebooks and the letter describe the process of the construction and failure of the ethics generated between the couple. What has been frequently discussed in previous research is how w...