How does the author employ language in the collection, Table For Two?

The language in Table for Two changes slightly from one story to another (particularly as regards the switches between third-person and first-person perspective) but maintains a very calm, straightforward, Hemingway-esque approach to the language that allows the facts of the stories to largely dictate the reader's experiences of them. The stories narrated in the third person tend to have a more lesson-oriented tenor to them that evokes the quality of language found in a children's fable or a nursery rhyme, as the actions of the characters in them are held up as instructive examples of the consequences of particular actions. The first-person narratives, meanwhile, involve a bit more circuity and fallibility in the style of their delivery, but are ultimately also written in a straightforward, quiet manner, mirroring the tonal elements elsewhere in the collection.