The first paragraph of Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream evidences Didion’s gothic use of setting to personify her theme. Unconventional would be a lighthearted term at best used to describe a novel that sets up such a tone before any factual information is revealed in what is considered by many to be journalism. All of this symbolism reflects what Didion has yet to inform us of, but we already know that whatever it is supposedly no good. Yeats included in the preface of the novel bears the weight of Christ and pure, iconic, hopeful Bethlehem with the antichrist and the impending doom of a new, darker Bethlehem. However, Didion’s subjectivity and style in Slouching Towards Bethlehem begs the question: journalism or literary nonfiction?īefore one considers even the first essay present in the novel, it is imperative to note the essay collection’s title and symbolic meaning. While authors like Joan Didion borrowed techniques from nonfiction writing, they were still classified as notable journalists. Tom Wolfe’s 1973 New Journalism collection features articles with writing styles that, at the time, were highly unconventional. Slouching Towards Bethlehem- Journalism or Nonfiction?
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