Comment on language/style

The voice of the narrator is consistent throughout Bennett's collection of short stories and poems. The narrator uses complex sentence structures and advanced vocabulary as a nod to her character's background as an academic. In "Morning, Noon, and Night" she takes, what might be, a simple description of chilling bananas to a whole new linguistic level when the narrator describes the chore as, "This can occur in the fridge overnight of course, depending on how prescient and steadfast one is about one's morning victuals, or it might be...there's a nice cool windowsill where a bowl especially for fruit can always be placed" (3).