What is the author's style in the story, Face Time?

The author’s linguistic stylings throughout the short story are entirely dictated by the narrator’s consciousness. This means that because the first person narrator is presenting her account in her own words on the page, the ways in which the author renders the narrative world are inextricable from the ways in which the narrator would render her world. The way that she sees, experiences, and interprets reality in turn begets the ways that she presents her “weird dystopia” on the page (273). Because so much of the narrative appears in the form of dialogue, the narrator largely strays away from ornate or poetic passages of narration or description, particularly in the early pages of the story. Indeed, the majority of the narrator’s descriptive passages focus on the ways in which she sees her father on the screen during their calls.