Sarny: A Life Remembered | Literary Qualities

Sarny: A Life Remembered Literary Qualities

The narrator of Sarny is a ninety-fouryear-old woman looking back on events that were crucial to her becoming the woman she is. Very well read and proud of her literacy, she writes well, with her prose style colored by a few dialectical idioms such as following nouns with pronouns, as in "Miss Laura she ... " This makes the narrative easily readable, while the idioms give it a strong sense of place and time.