Why Voltaire's Writing Style Works for Candide

In the novel Candide the reader is introduced to a writing style that hops back and forth between settings constantly and seems to have no straight path. In one chapter the reader could be in Germany while the next one you are in the New World. While this style would prbabably be bashed by critics to day it was loved at the time. The reason this writing style works for Voltaire is the hopping around is part of his satire on optimism. With all these seemingly random things happening It is easy to see while Voltaire thought that the current thought about optimism was wrong. He is showing through all these terrible things that happen to people that they should not see it as the best state of the world but that they are legitemently having bad luck. If Voltaire just used  a linear constant narrative this story would not work because it would be to close to an actual lifestyle, but with Voltaire randomly hopping around he shows that even with the crazy events happening to Candide he still for some reason beleives in Pangloss' theory.