[19] Dialogue in Gaddis

In the "Carpenter's Gothic," I feel the author uses this way of telling the story because he wants us to picture this situation, like how a play or theater production would want us to picture it not as a set production but as if it was an actual family, or actual real life scene that we are seeing. He writes this story basically like a script. Many characters, during the conversation, such as the on on page 25, they do not really understand each other and the reason for that, is so we get the picture of how each character looks, based off how they sound. But I feel this also gives the idea that the characters are all focused and are trying to understand what each other is saying, because that is usually a normal reaction to a person when they are having trouble trying to figure out what a person with an accent is saying. I've also noticed that many of the conversations throughout the novel, it is usually a small number, mainly two people, and not a group of people talking.