Impersonal
In what might strike readers as a kind of paradox or contradiction, the narration plays up the emotions of its characters (see "Tone") while also, at the same time, seeming kind of impersonal and "above it all." Basically, the story blows kind of hot and cold, just like Katy Perry.
Lawrence's writing style is crucial to achieving these moments of chilliness, maintaining a noticeable distance from the story's characters. One big example of this tendency? Lawrence often refuses to name characters, referring to them instead as "the woman" or "the mother." Of course, those choices also emphasize the "family drama" aspect of the story (see "Genre"), but they also distance us from who these characters are as individuals. It's unsettling—particularly when it means we don't get the name of the protagonist until several paragraphs after we first meet her.