Night Women writing

The style of writing in Night Women started out much more choppy, and unlike any of the other stories. It sounds, in the beginning, like she is writing everything she thinks. Her sentences are short in the first paragraph, but get longer as she writes about her son and the stories she tells him. These stories are magical, and she uses tales of "ghost women" to comfort him and herself. Her lullaby-like language flows as the reader falls into her story, short as it may be. This relates to the comfort aspect, because despite some of the horrible things she is going through, her writing feels very soft and almost ethereal.
I find it interesting that she tells these stories to her son, but her style sounds like she is telling them to herself. There is only ones instance of dialogue to her son, and it's when she says "darling." That one word shows how much she loves him and is willing to sacrifice for him - but it also shows how she needs him to pull her out of her own mindset. She uses the stories to fool him, yes, but also to boost her up. She needs to believe she is a goddess so she can get through another night.