Please help and If you don’t know the answer please do no answer Why does Dahl choose to avoid directly stating the news in the dialogue?

Dahl doesn't give us the exact details of what Patrick Maloney tells his wife, Mary. What we do know from their conversation is that he wants to leave her and wishes that there would be no fuss about it because that would affect his job. More so, he tries to assure her that she would be taken care of.

Explanation:

i’m writing a memoir and i’ve been given the great suggestion of placing a ‘sub-narrative’ within some of the chapters – sort of, what was going on with me in the grand scheme of things.

i was wondering how to format this so that it is very obvious we are stepping out the of story.

firstly is a change in font from serif to sans workable? i also use dashes for a scene change. was thinking of using a different scene-changer too.

here’s a (shortened) example:

university – or what’s known as ‘uni’ in australia – were some of the best days of my life. where else do you get to potter around in a great location, have very little responsibility, learn lots of things, do lots of things and walk out four years later with a bonus – a degree!

with my university years i had immersed myself into community of intelligent ambitious people. generally everyone had a confidence about themselves. they knew where they were going in life and weren’t threatened by others.

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next normal paragraph continues here…

(sorry couldn’t show the fonts in this comment field)

too much?

the purpose is to inform because for some reason they really want you to know about it.