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Slouching towards bethlehem5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() As much as she attempts to relay the sequence of events with neutrality, a discreet tone of disdain can be felt throughout the essay, which is prevalent in the description of everyday actions and habits in between dialogue and fact. Structured in a parallel fashion to fiction based on reality, Didion mirrors Tom Wolfe’s philosophy behind social realism when she sets the scene of a group of displaced juveniles on the street of Haight-Ashbury. ![]() Much like the bottomless pit Didion writes about, she herself is absorbed in this chaotic, substance-obsessed world and her writing is representative of this. Joan Didion’s collection of essays, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is a dramatic look inside the haphazard, centerless bubble that is California in the 1960s, as perceived by Didion in a despondent state. The Dark Side of “Status Life” as Didion Sees It: Slouching Towards Bethlehem ![]()
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