Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret has been critically attacked for both its subject matter and its literary quality, but admirers think Blume's novel is a true work of art, featuring a narrative that recalls the work of eighteenthcentury British novelist Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe. Blume's first-person narrative contains little commentary that is unattached to action, reflecting even more economy of language than Defoe's narratives.
Blume uses the unique way that a person speaks as a way of developing character. The language of Paul and Mary Hutchins differs from that of Sylvia Simon; Barbara and Herb Simon sound different from each other, and they sound different from the other parents.
Each of Margaret's friends has his or her own language.
The novel's short chapters tend to trace only a single.....
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