What is the author's style in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens?

The language in this novel is full of contrasting images. The sentences are structured conversationally for the majority of the novel and are very easy to read and understand. The structure provides an intimate view of the world of the characters and their feelings while managing to convey the author's satiric tone throughout the novel. Much of the novel is comical and skeptical, tending to indirectly criticize certain aspects of society. In particular, the language is often extremely irreverent to many established institutions, such as the legal system and the medical institution.