What is the author's style in Roselily by Alice Walker?

The term narrative is generally taken to mean a telling of an event or a series of events. These events might be actions, or conversation, or other elements of plot that are related to each other by a web of cause and effect. Often, the details are arranged in chronological order, but the order may be varied for particular effects. "Roselily" is not a narrative in the conventional sense. There is no direct action and no talk, except for the ritual speech of the minister. The time passed during the "present" of the story may be as little as five minutes, or perhaps as many as fifteen. Presumably, the wedding party and guests are speaking and moving about, but the only actions that pass before the reader's mind are those that Roselily remembers from the distant past or imagines about her future. In this non-narrative construction, "Roselily" is more like a poem than like a conventional short story.