Reading 1001 discussion

Sayers masterfully employs a range of dialects and voices throughout the book. What do these add to the novel?

They add a sense of place and setting.

agree with Kristel

You could really imagine the characters. Their turn of phrase was colourful, especially the sluice-keeper, and this example from Mr Lavender, "Ah, you're right there, Bob Russell. when I was a lad, there wasn't none o' this myster'ousness about. Everything was straighforward an' proper. But ever since eddication come in, it's been nothing but puzzlement, and fillin' up forms and 'ospital papers ans sustificates and such, before you can even get as much as your Lord George pension"

Authenticity.

I agree with everyone. I also thought the quote from Lavender that Pip quotes really evoked his character.