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`In Literature, by Robert DiYanni, style is described as the way a writer chooses words and arranges them. “Style is the verbal identity of a writer, as unmistakable as his or her face or voice.” John Updike, in two short stories, A&P and Lifeguard, can be seen experimenting somewhat with some different styles. The uses of language in these stories largely determine the impression the reader derives about the main character. Both of these …

…descriptive powers…” Her example is fitting: As he waits breathlessly at the checkout for the girls to appear from one of the aisles, Sammy describes “the whole store” as being “like a pinball machine and I didn’t know which tunnel they’d come out of. Her statement is similar to another by Robert Detweiler who remarks that “…the brashness and occasional mild vulgarity of the language balance nicely the inherent sentimentality of the action.”