Joan Didion and her heroes.


by Andrewshw2 - Date: 2007-10-20 - Word Count: 334 Share This!

In Joan Didion's book "Slouching towards Bethlehem", she wrote an article called "Some Dreamers of The Golden Dream". She argues on the subject of how many people came to California in search of the golden dream. I suppose the thought of a golden dream is just that, a dream, or a legend. . Lucille Miller is "a woman motivated by love and greed". Lucile Miller, just like lots of others, headed west towards California for what she thought would be a better life. "Of course she came from somewhere else, came off the plain in search of something she had seen in a film or heard on the radio". She ended up getting so wrapped up in the thought of "The Golden Dream" that she lost all she had as well as the trust for anything in the future.
On the whole I feel Lucille Miller was just looking for a better life. When she got to where she was going and realized that it wasn't all it was cracked up to be she should have felt betrayed. This was the identical thing had been happening to families portrayed in the film "Grapes of Wrath". Families began to start heading west after seeing flyers advertising good paying jobs, but when they arrived the jobs were limited and didn't give much at all. I believe that sometimes having your hopes up and then being let down or betrayed in this kind of way makes people do things they would normally not do. I consider that through her writings Joan Didion herself is trying to build out where she fits into this whole picture we call life. Her ancestors accomplished a lot coming here long ago; she hopes that she will be able to live up to their reputations as sturdy women.

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