What is the author's style in My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber?

Thurber narrates in the first person past tense, while frequently reproducing snippets of conversation in dialect. In some instances he is more of an observer than a participant, but is often caught up in the middle of the chaos which is his family life. He branches out to the wider community only while describing the 1913 panic over a supposedly broken dam, his college years at Columbus State University, and his frequent attendance at draft physicals, although from the start his deficient vision results in his being rejected.