Roth

His style has a lot of questions and reptitions. He uses a lot of "un" words like "undiluted" and "unbashed." He said the old jewish community were "undereducated and overburned," using oppisites to show a related dreary condition. Plenty of variation between long and short sentences. Actually, his longest sentences are almost always next to his shortest and vice versa. His style fits in the middle. He has some more academic word choice like "indomitable." He also over-killed the point about how important Swede was to the commnity. Just as I was about to get bored on the 6th paragraph he stopped. I noticed almost every senence follows the next by mentioning the same subject. Like in the paragraph where he's talking about The Kid, there is a follow. Kind of like a succession of themes. There are a lot of oneomapias. There is a definate sense that this is all a story based on the narrator's memory. Some of it is first person, but most is third. It's hard to say if I liked the story or not because it's just an except, but I think it's obvious something is going to happen to Swede. It's also interesting to note how he's called "The Swede" as if he is more than a person, he is a thing. A symbol for the community. And a "fettered" symbol at that.