More than likely she is relying on representative dialog in the numerous direct dialog passages, meaning that she may be making up some words, but she isn’t making up the meaning of what was said, and there is a grand-canyon sized divide between the two. For example, when Lucy, Karl, and Ann are joking around about having a fundraiser for Lucy’s teeth, it’s possible that the prepositions may have been different, the monetary figures lower or higher, but those factors don’t alter the meaning of the conversation. The illumination of an unsolvable problem remains the same. Lucy can’t get her teeth, and no amount of money will erase that fact. Simply telling readers the same thing in narrative format would minimize the impact. Summery dialog wouldn’t have the same effect either, but it does help to focalize the
More than likely she is relying on representative dialog in the numerous direct dialog passages, meaning that she may be making up some words, but she isn’t making up the meaning of what was said, and there is a grand-canyon sized divide between the two. For example, when Lucy, Karl, and Ann are joking around about having a fundraiser for Lucy’s teeth, it’s possible that the prepositions may have been different, the monetary figures lower or higher, but those factors don’t alter the meaning of the conversation. The illumination of an unsolvable problem remains the same. Lucy can’t get her teeth, and no amount of money will erase that fact. Simply telling readers the same thing in narrative format would minimize the impact. Summery dialog wouldn’t have the same effect either, but it does help to focalize the