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This 4 page paper explores Joan Didion’s short story and the feelings it conveys about the author’s ideas and feelings about home and how they relate to her current life. No other sources are listed.
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Joan Didions short story "On Going Home" is a story that describes Didions childhood home and the influences that she had there.
She describes her home as something of a time capsule, of a place that she could go to remember the way things used to be. She even admits
that visits to her childhood home allow her to somewhat revert to that old person, that person she was before she ever moved away, married, and started her own family.
When Didion writes that "marriage is the classic betrayal" (Didion 10), she is asserting that it is the betrayal of the ties you
have to your family, traditions, your home. When you marry, for better or worse, you take on a new persona to a degree. That persona is shaped by
not just who you used to be, not just by your parents and their values, where you grew up, the peers you associated with, but also by the new environment
you are entering. Your married life is full of new experiences and those most often take precedence over the old ones. At the same time, however, you often
find yourself clinging desperately to those old times while at the same time defending the new ones. As is
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