English questions| and you read this excerpt from "goodbye to all that" by joan didion. part of what i want to tell you is what it is like to be young in new york, how six months can become eight years with the deceptive ease of a film dissolve, for that is how those years appear to me now, in a long sequence of sentimental dissolves and old-fashioned trick shots—the seagram building fountains dissolve into snowflakes, i enter a revolving door at twenty and come out a good deal older, and on a different street. how does joan didion's extended metaphor of comparing her time in new york to a movie affect the meaning of this excerpt? 1| it subtly suggests that didion's experiences in new york have been fictionalized, which calls the truthfulness of her account into question. 2| it highlights didion's belief that all people who live in new york feel as though they are the stars of an epic film about their