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.

• “it is distinctly possible to remain too long at the fair.” – what does she mean by this?
• how do we know she stayed too long? use examples from the text?
• how does she feel toward ny at the end? ? how do you know? use examples from the text.
• what were the consequences of staying too long in ny to her? use examples from the text
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Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

The book the lord of the rings by j r r tolkien, in which the main character must go on a journey to destroys magic ring, is an expample of which plot archetype

Bescribe a food from your country that many people enjoy