Anne records her personal actions and feelings in warm, simple conversational language. Her images are vivid; her writing is sincere. She addresses Kitty, the diary, as a human being as she uncovers her true self. Anne describes characters’ daily trials and tribulations in such detail that the reader gets to know all of them intimately. These details, combined with Anne’s unaffected style, make all the more realistic a story that has captured the hearts of people throughout the world.
Anne Frank is, in a sense, an example of dramatic irony because, unlike the narrator, the reader knows how the story will end. This knowledge on the part of the reader lends a sharp poignancy to the optimism of Anne’s last entry.
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