What is the author's tone in The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of Dorothy Day by Dorothy Day?

Day's tone is influenced by her extensive experience as a journalist. Her prose flows smoothly and clearly and she moves in and out of particular topics with ease. In some chapters, she jumps through multiple character sketches without the reader realizing that her descriptions may not fit well into a broader whole. Day also has a meeker tone than one might expect from a social radical. Many may imagine a radical socialist and anarchist of Day's variety as voracious and rabidly ideological, but Day's writing conveys the personality of a woman who is humble despite her confidence in her vision of social justice.