This is the best answer I can find. After reading it over multiple times I shortened it down to the word Delicate. It makes it sound like she want's this gown.
Answer: One reason that the author says the loch ness monster is just a figment or our imaginations is because there have been no increased sightings since the invention and prevalence of cellphones and digital cameras. Even with the use of satellite technology, no scientists have ever been able to find anything in the loch. When the BBC tested the imagination theory, they used a fence post and had it rise out of the water in front of tourists. when later asked to draw what they had seen, they all drew the iconic monster head.
One popular theory is that Nessie is a plesiosaur from the last ice age; however, it is impossible for one have survived this long for all of these years, especially with so little food in the lake.
Explanation:
1. I read the whole essay and the only allusion that she uses is Xanadu. Joan Didion writes, nobody lives at Xanadu meaning nobody lives in the paradise.
Allusion is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. It does not tell in detail the thing, idea, place or person.
Xanadu is a mitical place. It is located in the north of Shangri La that was introduced in 1933 in the fictional novel Lost Horizon by author James Hilton
2.- The symbol that Joan Didion uses is that nobody lives at Xanadu that it is paradise on earth for her because New York was appealing to the author even though she was not well paid and didn't have the best food on the table.
He realizes Max really does remember seeing him kill Max's mother.
