Refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of this narrative.

in "goodbye to all that," joan didion writes that the days before she "knew the names of all the bridges were happier than the ones that came later."

which evidence from the text best supports the idea that her first years in new york were better than her last years in the city?

"to an eastern child, particularly a child who has always had an uncle on wall street and who has spent several hundred saturdays first at f. a.o. schwarz and being fitted for shoes at best’s and then waiting under the biltmore clock dancing to lester lanin, new york is just a city, albeit the city, a plausible place for people to live."

"i still believed in possibilities then, still had the sense, so peculiar in new york, that something extraordinary would happen any minute, any day, any month."

"of course it might have been some other city, had circumstances been different and the time been different and had i been different, might have been paris or chicago or even san "

"all i could do during those three days was talk long-distance to a boy i already knew i would never marry in the spring. i would stay in new york, i told him, just six months, and i could see the brooklyn bridge from my window."

the answer is "i still believed in possibilities then, still had the sense, so peculiar in new york, that something extraordinary would happen any minute, any day, any month."

"I still believed in possibilities then, still had the sense, so peculiar in New York, that something extraordinary would happen any minute, any day, any month."

Explanation:

This is the sentence that best expresses the idea that the author's first years in the city were better than her last years in the city. In this text, the author reflects on how the idea of New York City changed in her mind over time. Initially, she believed that New York was full of possibilities, and that anything might happen here. She felt a sense of something extraordinary. This is the idea that is expressed in this quote.

the answer is c. hope this

lennie

is very stupid, big and strong and sweet, he loves soft things

george

is smart reosponible and watches over lennie

candy

candy is an old ranch worker who has lost one of his hands in a farm accident. he's spent the best years of his life working on someone else's ranch, only to lose his hand and have little money.

curly

is the ranch owners son he is said to have vasilene in one glove to keep that hand soft for his wife

crooks

crooks. crooks is a lively, sharp-witted, black stable-hand, who takes his name from his crooked back. like most of the characters in the story, he admits that he is extremely lonely. when lennie visits him in his room, his reaction reveals this fact.

curlys wife

is lonly and seems to flirt with most of the men on the farm she does not like her hunband much.

1. the human rights issue in the novel is equlity the men in the story are poor and curly is mean to all of them as if they are just dirt

2. the first issue comes up when lennie kills the mouse

3. when lennies love for soft things gets in the way and he kills curlys wife as shes running away.

4. the issue is resolved by the death of lennie.

5. lennie suffers because of his death he will never be able to tend the rabbits.

6. the wording in the qoutations imply what is happening in the story

7. when lennies love for soft things gets in the way and he kills curlys wife as shes running away.

8.   the issue is resolved by the death of lennie.