What is the author's style in Holiday by Katherine Anne Porter?

There is very little dialogue in “Holiday,” partly due to the fact that the family speaks mainly German. After the narrator arrives at the Müller farm, she rarely speaks directly in quotation marks; what little she says, she paraphrases for the reader: “I tried to tell her that I was not hungry”; “I told her indeed I did like it so.” Ironically, the only direct quotation from the narrator after she arrives at the farm is, “Thank you,” which she says to Ottilie when she serves her dinner. This lack of dialogue from the narrator reminds readers of the language barrier and the fact that the narrator has come to the Müller farm for contemplation and solitude, to sort out the troubles of the life she has left behind. A