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In this paper, we consider some possible features of 'invited stories'. In so doing, we demonstrate some methods by which members might constitute their social world by, in and through their talk. In particular, we show how members might routinely constitute marriage as a social organization in our culture in displaying its 'features' and 'troubles' in their talk. 1 Our discussion is based on the transcriptions of a number of tape-recorded accounts of marriage breakdown which were collected by a third year undergraduate student in sociology in order to gather materials for a dissertation. This student asked some of her fellow students, whom she knew to have experienced breakdowns of their marriage, to tell how the breakdown happened.In this paper, our analysis relates primarily to two of these accounts, which are reproduced in the Data Appendix at the end of the paper. We request that readers should look at them before continuing with this paper. SECTION 1The transcription MB/d begins as follows:1 ((General background noises off)) 2 K:Righ. 3((pause C.A. 3.00)) ((General background noises off)) 4 D: U:m what (dya want me-5 K: (Right you know just from when ya were at school -you know ow you met imWe suggest that D is having difficulties in starting her story and that K is prompting D with materials which might be suitable for beginning such a story. We further suggest, however, that these possibilities raise several problems of interest in the analysis of these materials.

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