Summary of Joan Didion's Collected Essays

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We look for the sermon in the suicide, the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices, and live entirely by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images. #2 I was meant to have a script, but I didn’t. I was meant to know the plot, but I didn’t. I was meant to believe in the narr