Response to Hornby

Response to Hornby:

The story was about Dave's reaction to his first real exposure to the art
world.  It was important that Dave be relatively uncultured going into it or
have put much thought into art.  However, the author could not simply state
"Dave is not overly cultured and has not put much thought into art", because
that would be overly direct.  Instead, by telling the story from Dave's point
of view, we not only learn the story itself but are able to make inferences
about his level of culture from his style of speech.  I quite liked this fact.

At the same time, however, it made the piece much more difficult to read.  I'm
accustomed to reading "proper" English, and I found reading something something
more akin to how people actually talk challenging.  I would have to read some
sections more than once in order to determine exactly what the narrator was
trying to get across.