Punctuation in "Use of Force" by W.C. Williams

     In Williams' short story, "The Use of Force,"  I was trying to figure out why I thought everything felt so real about it.  I think it was partially because the lack of quotation marks, and the fact that dialogue did not occur each on its own line.  I think this style made the writing seem more like a stream of thought, rather than very structured and calculated language.  By the end of the story, I felt like I knew the doctor, because I had been exposed to his private thoughts as well as his actions in one stream, so to say.  For example, on page 807 we read, "Well, I said, suppose we take a look at the throat first.  I smiled in my best professional manner and asking for the child's first name I said, come on, Mathilda, open your mouth and let's take a look at your throat."  In this manner of writing, we as readers see what the doctor is doing versus what he is thinking at the same time, which I think creates a more "3D" character.   Also, we know the doctor felt he needed to find out if the child was sick for everyone's sake, but we also hear that for the doctor "It was a pleasure to attack her" (808).  What a contrast!  I think maybe the doctor is getting angry because he had already "seen at least two children lying dead in a bed of neglect" (808), which is a statement that not only creates a sense of urgency through the rhythm of it, but shows the reader why the doctor is getting almost panicked in a way.   Seeing the doctor contrast harsh words to describe the sick child such as "little brat" (808), and describing that "she had fought valiantly" to hide her sickness (809) made me think that the doctor was imposing bad descriptors on the child to distance himself from the pain resulting from finding her with the deathly sickness.  The story made me feel hopeless especially when I read the ending line of "tears of defeat blinded her eyes" (809) because though the reader never finds out what happens to any character in the story, we can guess by the word choice that it may be too late for the girl.