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Read this excerpt from "Goodbye to All That" by Joan Didion.
Part of what I want to tell you is what it is like to be young in New York, how six months can become eight years with the deceptive ease of a film dissolve, for that is how those years appear to me now, in a long sequence of sentimental dissolves and old-fashioned trick shots—the Seagram Building fountains dissolve into snowflakes, I enter a revolving door at twenty and come out a good deal older, and on a different street.
How does Joan Didion's extended metaphor of comparing her time in New York to a movie affect the meaning of this excerpt?
1| It subtly suggests that Didion's experiences in New York have been fictionalized, which calls the truthfulness of her account into question.
2| It highlights Didion's belief that all people who live in New York feel as though they are the stars of an epic film about their
