Style

"Ah, what people are! He is almost not with us, and his life is nearly gone, but T.R once yelled at him, so he loves him." pg 98. The way in which Seize the Day by Saul Bellow is written shows a lot about what the author wants us to feel. The style it imposes gives us a sense of understanding the characters more personally. The way in which Willhelm, being the main character, expresses his emotions and thoughts, gets us to understand and get into the story at a greater scale. Bellow's way of making it a personal interaction between the characters and the readers in terms of the way in which they express themselves and how you see their thinking patterns, gets us to feel more comfortable and at the same time more integrated to what the character is going through. This is because once you start to identify yourself with the character by how it communicates to you, the reader, you feel a connection and therefore understand the characters point of view much better.

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If Bellow had used a more formal and more to the point sort of style with his characters, the result would be a much different. When it is written in a style such as that one, you usually get the feeling that style usually imposes, being it more serious and more attentive to facts. In other words you could say it is a sort of connotation-denotation difference, since one of them gives you the feeling to follow it along in a fresh way while the other makes you feel you need to pay close attention to details and what the precise meaning of it might be. He also writes making a lot of emphasis on some points by making them sound as full of emotion, or even sarcasm, as he possibly can. He writes energetically, and the way in which the character's conversations go along create an easy flow, one without that many difficult words or sentences. His style is therefore sensed as a very fresh, but energetic one.