How does the narrator convey Maître’s growing detachment from reality over the course of the novel, Vengeance Is Mine?

The narrator’s elliptical sentences and esoteric word choices convey Maître’s growing detachment from reality. The more confused Maître becomes about who she is, what she has experienced, and the true nature of her relationships, the more winding and complex the narrator’s linguistic stylings become. In particular, the narrator saturates the narration with accumulating numbers of questions to enact Maître’s doubt, disorientation, and desperation for the truth. Such stylistic patterns appear at the start of the novel, and abound as the narrative unfolds. When Maître goes to see her parents at the novel’s start, for example, she wonders, “When will it be your turn to reassure me? Is it right to virtually forbid me to confess my failings to you? But they loved her so, she knew! And in their immeasurable love, did they sometimes wish for a respite from that love, did they sometimes Wish Maître Susane would disappear” (20)? The linguistic stylings in this passage capture Maître’s confusion and fear. In turn, they affect a harried, concerned narrative tone which immerses the reader in Maître’s psychological and emotional experience.