What is the author's style in Friedman's Fables by Edwin H. Friedman?

Each of the fables in Friedman's collection is structured in a traditional, fairly straightforward way. Characters and stories move clearly, and in a fundamentally linear fashion, from beginning through middle to end, from set up through complication into resolution, with each character undergoing some sort of journey of transformation along the way. This simple structure, which has been underpinning narratives of all sorts since narrative began, is particularly useful when it comes to supporting the essential purpose of the fables and the simpler and more straightforward the context, the more comfortable and secure the reader is going to be. To look at it another way, when the reader doesn't have to worry and/or think about "how" a story is being told, he or she is more free and more open to the "what," the "who," and most importantly in this case, the "why."