I felt that Joan Didion’s description’s could have been a bit stronger in the artistic form, especially in the way that she describes the exterior and interior of characters depicted in the story. For me I would have liked the author to have been a little more insightful in the use of her words, grasping the concept of personally and bringing home the characteristics of the characters in her words.
I did on the other hand like the way that she opens up with the line(pg.1) “This is a story about love and death in the golden land, and begins with the country” this use of word play caught my attention and made me want to keep on reading. Furthermore, I really liked the way she describes San Bernardino, she was right on, I use to live there a while back and her description of the weather was very detailed, right down to the dust on the road, it really made me think of the place I used to call home.
The affect of the descriptions given in the story had a big impact of the reader in the sense that it lets the reader know whets going on whether it’s the time, date, wheatear, area, etc……. It had little impact though as to regards of the artistic word play of characters. She now ‘starts to tell the reader what happened on the of the incident, for example when she says(pg.6) “her 1964 Volkswagen came to a suddenly stop, caught fire, and began to burn”. The reader started to ask questions like what happened, why did it happen, and what she did about it. This keeps the reader attention and make them wont to read more of the story. She then tell the reader that her husband died, the reader fills sorry for her, the reader starts to read more of the story, and then the writer dopes the real truth on the readers, suddenly the reader is surprised that the car cash was real set up, the man wife in the story was the one who caused the accident. The reader no longer fell sorry for her, but angre and the wife.
