I was trying to figure out what was going wrong with this story as I read it. It was a weird story that felt like it could have taken place 500 years ago, 100 years, or contemporary with its writing (1941), and there were so many clues as to which, until the very real obvious clue I will get to. But the writing was weirdly cryptic and otherwise pretty offensive. There’s a comment I’ve thought before about dialect in novels. Mostly, I hate dialect unless […]