Question

(Please help me I will give extra points and the crown)...PART A: What is one of the themes in Joan Didion's "Goodbye to All That"?

Question 5 options:

One gains a better understanding of a place by visiting it rather than by living in it.


Growing up and accepting the realities of life can have painful repercussions.


As one gains greater responsibility, happiness is harder to find.


It is foolish to expect a place that is not home to ever feel like home.

PART B: What does Didion do in the essay to allow the theme in Part A to emerge and develop?

Question 6 options:

Didion recalls the way she was happier when the writing she did was published under a pen name rather than under her own name.


Didion describes how the fact that she had very little money prevented her from enjoying all that New York had to offer.


Didion names all of the places in New York—Grand Central Station, Times Square, the New York Public Library—that comforted her when she lived there.


Didion contrasts how happy she was when she first lived in New York with the depression that hit her as the "magic" of the city wore off.

Answer 1

The theme in Joan Didion's "Goodbye to All That" is: "It is foolish to expect a place that is not home to ever feel like home."

To allow this theme to emerge and develop, Didion contrasts how happy she was when she first lived in New York with the depression that hit her as the "magic" of the city wore off. She describes how she had initially romanticized New York and expected it to feel like home, but as time passed, she realized that it was just a place that she happened to be living in. Through her personal experiences and observations, Didion shows that it is unrealistic to expect a place to feel like home if it is not one's true home.