If the work is replete with ambiguities and paradoxes, its ability to reflect life is as accurately inaccurate as whatever may pass for reality. The longevity of writings such as the Bible and the U.S. Constitution depend upon their re-interpretability. The cage that holds the universal must adequately house the content. The bones that support the fictional life should allow for strength and movement as well as confinement. Water unchanneled produces little energy.
Style is the business of the particular writer and the age within which the writer lives.
If the age is classically oriented, that is to say suspicious of emotions, then style is meant to serve the structure and little more. The personality of the writer is less evident. Shakespeare, a poet from a more romantic era, richly infused the language with image upon image. Style, at our point in history, is the writer's personal imprint. Our present times encourage individual expression, even the idiosyncratic voice.