There are also first-person narrators who tell their own stories in their own voices. Consider how point of view affects your response to the characters. A first-person narrator is not always trustworthy or reliable. How does the desire, values, beliefs, and attitudes of the first-person narrator shape what he or she relates. The way a writer chooses words, arranges them in sentences and longer units of discourse, and exploits their significance determines his or her style.
Style is a kind of verbal identity of a writer that reflects the way a writer sees the world.
For example, Faulkner s convoluted, complicated, long, and often formal prose conveys something about the way Faulkner sees the South that he writes about. Hemingway, on the other hand, with his minimal, fragmented, often interrupted and staccato style reveals something about his typical preoccupation as well, World War I and its devastating effect on relationships. Again, form is content. How something is said is just as important as what is said. Imagery Language and style also includes images, the concrete representation of a sense impression, feeling, or idea.