W O Mitchell Style
The style of W.O. Mitchell demands particular attention not only because of its acknowledged brilliance, however because in certain respects it’s the effects of his achievements which rival in oppositions to the more serious themes of his novels. W.O. creates a style and atmosphere in which the darker implications within the story such as learning mostly about life and death are silenced. In part, this is because the most striking and unusual of Mitchell’s stylistic achievements in the novels is his rampant explanation of a child’s world on innocence.