Question

In “Goodbye to All That,” how does Joan Didion’s comparing her feelings for New York to the love one feels in a romantic relationship affect the tone of the narrative?
It develops the narrative's clear-eyed, honest tone.

It helps create the narrative's sentimental, wistful tone.

It subtly stresses the narrative's comic tone.

It works to better convey the narrative's self-deprecating tone.

Answer 1

Joan Didion's 1967 essay "Goodbye to All That" offers a romantic, sentimental, a wistful examination of her feelings for the city of New York.  The second answer, here, is correct because Didion compares her feelings for New York to those that one feels in respect to a romantic relationship.  Didion's portrait of New York, here, cannot be considered to be "clear-eyed" and "honest" due to the idealized and romantic vision of the city that she offers.  Furthermore, Didion's essay is not comedic or self-depreciating.