Joan Didion and Her Own California

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I have a belief that Joan Didion agrees that California is not precisely the place it is made out to be. In her essay “Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream”, she thinks about The San Bernardino Valley. She portrays this place as if it were similar to torture. “Not the harsher California, haunted by the Mojave just beyond the mountains, devastated by the burning dry Santa Ana storm that comes down through the passes at 100 miles an hour and whines through the eucalyptus windbreaks and works on the nerves”. I believe that in what she wrote here she is saying that California is thought to have stunning climate, but it can be awful as well. At times California’s warmth becomes awful. It becomes so burning you feel like it is hard for you to take in air. You’d think that with the blustery weather blowing it would help to cold it down, but when it is that hot it only makes it feel that much hotter and more awful. Similar to lots of things in California, the weather tends to be one great or the other. California at times can get very frosty; Mark Twain was allegedly quoted as saying “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco”. The weather is only one legend that Didion talks about in her writings.
In Didion’s book “Where I Was From”, she tells the legend of the history of her family. She tells us how her family struggled to transfer west back in 1846. When Didion talks about the women in her family she is gratified. They were very hard workers, who worked with what little they had. “These women in my family would seem to have been practical and in their innermost instincts clinically fundamental, given to breaking clean with everyone and everything they knew. They could shoot and they could handle store and when their children outgrew their shoes they could learn from the Indians how to make moccasins”. I trust that by Didion telling the story about her female relatives she is trying to contradict a legend.

Andrew

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