1. Joan Didion - Goodbye to All That
In Joan Didion's coming of age essay, "Goodbye to All That", she uses New York symbolically to portray the illusion of infinite youth. ... She describes her own experience with New York in a manner that shows the ideas, optimism, and dreams that die with lost youth and the understanding that comes from growing older. ... It is a reminder that life is in fact short, that one cannot stay young forever, and eventually, at some point in everyone's life, they will look back nostalgically upon the youth they lost. ... Looking back on her youth, she knows she has lost all the optimism an...
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- Approx Pages: 5
- Grade Level: High School