Pick a quotation from "A White Heron" to illustrate the author's style of writing. Explain why you picked this passage and what it illustrates.

There are many different aspects of style that could be
selected to talk about, however one of the most interesting to my mind is the final
paragraph that comes at the end of the story, when the narrator addresses Nature itself,
appealing to it to confide in Sylvia, who has chosen companionship with Nature over
companionship with her own kind. Note how this paragraph
ends:

Were the
birds better friends than their hunter might have been--who can tell? Whatever treasures
were lost to her, woodlands and summertime, remember! Bring your gifts and graces and
tell your secrets to this lonely country
child!

This is actually an
example of pathetic fallacy, which is the assumption that nature itself has human
feeling and cares about the suffering of humans. The narrator addresses Nature, in the
form of "woodlands and summertime," on behalf of Sylvia, who has sacrificed so much to
protect the white heron. Sylvia, as the name suggests (it means "wood" or "forest"), is
identified with nature throughout the novel, and if we examine the section where she
climbs the tree to locate the white heron's nest, we see that the great tree is even
shown to help her climb up. Thus perhaps it is not incongruous for the story to end with
the narrator's appeal to Nature to be the friend to her that she has just sacrificed by
refusing to divulge the location of the white heron's nest to the
hunter.