Question

Joan Didion’s 1967 essay, “Goodbye to All That,” recounts the author’s experiences as a young woman living in New York City. Didion describes how she loved New York at first, feeling it to be a place of such great possibility and wonder that it scarcely felt real to her. Later, however, Didion begins to feel unsettled and depressed in New York. She comes to believe that she can no longer manage the small tasks of everyday life.
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• “It is distinctly possible to remain too long at the Fair.” – What does she mean by this?

• How do we know she stayed too long? Use examples from the text?

• How does she feel toward NY at the end?? How do you know? Use examples from the text.

• What were the consequences of staying too long in NY to her? Use examples from the text

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Answer 1

"It is distinctly possible to remain too long at the Fair." - The fair is usually a gathering of people for the commerce or entertainment. It is a place where everything is fun, new, and within reach. However, it is only located in a limited space and once you have explored all that there is to explore, all the things you've enjoyed in your first perusal would gradually lose its charm until you get fed up with the fair. That is what she meant by that. 

She stayed too long in New York because she said so. Her initial plan was to stay for only six months, in the end, she stayed for eight years.