Joan Didion’s 1967 essay, “Goodbye to All That,” recounts the author’s experiences as a young woman living in New York City. Didion describes how she loved New York at first, feeling it to be a place of such great possibility and wonder that it scarcely felt real to her. Later, however, Didion begins to feel unsettled and depressed in New York. She comes to believe that she can no longer manage the small tasks of everyday life.

5. What literary devices (metaphors, similes, personification, point of view, symbolism, etc) do you see in the last section of the story?