What is the author's style in The Grave by Katherine Anne Porter?

Porter's writing style in the story, The Grave, shares some characteristics with modernism, a literary movement that occurred after World War I. While not as radically experimental as the works that frequently are associated with modernism—James Joyce's Ulysses or T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, for example—The Grave exhibits modernist tendencies in its spare but poetic style, its avoidance of a strictly linear plot, and its emphasis on fluid boundaries. Modernism was both a literary and cultural movement, which stood in opposition to older Victorian social standards and practices, particularly its rigid hierarchies of class, race, and gender. Modernism was particularly important in the American South, which was also engaged in a conflict between its plantation past and a newly developing, less stratified social order. In this sense, too, Porter's writing shares modernist concerns: in her depiction of Miranda's transgression of feminine standards, in allusions to her family's fall from a grand past, and in the graphic and ambiguously positive representation of feminine reproductive power.