Didion’s style relies heavily on casual reference or allusion. She uses references to Raskolnikov, a character in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, and the Stanford -Binet scale, an intelligence quotient test. She also mentions Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara who are (who are they???). She makes reference to a having an encounter with a vampire, without a crucifix, she creates the allusion that she feels hopeless. Didion considers that she

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