"Sometimes I think that those of us who are now in our thirties were born into the last generation to carry the burden of “home,” to find in family life the source of all tension and drama."
In this essay, Didion describes her sentiments that she feels as an adult with a daughter when she goes home. Didion seeks to define home as it has now changed for her.
I love this essay because I feel as adults, many of us are striving to define what home actually is. I'm a junior in college and home has changed for me a lot over the past few years. My parents have moved from my hometown and my siblings are all growing up. Sometimes I wonder what home really is. Is it a place or is it a state of being. If it's a state of being, I don't think I have been there in a long time.
Joan Didion's essay is wonderful because I feel that I can really relate. I think many people feel that they have lost what home really is.
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