Discuss the style of writing in "Dream Children" by Charles Lamb.

"Dream Children" by Charles Lamb is an autobiographical reflection on loss, regret, and the nature of childhood. The tone is nostalgic and, at first, light-hearted. Lamb recalls his grandmother, "who lived in a great house in Norfolk"—his "little ones" gather around him to hear his stories.
Towards the end of the essay, however, the tone becomes more serious and tragic as Lamb recounts the death of his brother and great-grandmother. As he describes the death of the latter, his daughter's "little right foot play[s] an involuntary movement, till upon [his] looking grave it desisted." He tells her about the "cruel disease, called a cancer" which took his grandmother from him.
The tone of the essay is also rather informal and conversational. Lamb will often digress, as if losing himself in the memories. When recalling the house that his grandmother lived in, for example, he points out that the house was "a hundred times bigger than that in which they and papa lived." Lamb inserts parenthetical, tangential information like this throughout the essay that stylistically gives the impression that one is listening to a spontaneous, informal reflection.