On Morality Joan Didion Analysis

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Joan Didlon talks about morality in two different stories, “On Morality” and “Comrade Laski,” She talks about morality in both of them, yet one is clearer about what mortality is. She never actually defines morality, she seems to only talk about descriptions of what it is or examples. She leaves it open like that for interpretation of her words. Everyone thinks differently and she uses that to her advantage. She doesn’t state what morality ever is because she wants each person to think for themselves on what they think morality actually is. Morality is not something that is taught in grade school classrooms or textbooks it’s a set of ways and values people live by every day.

Joan Didion’s "On Morality," she discusses, and argues on matters concerning morality as a social code, realistic needs, and moral importance. She is telling you the story while sitting in Death Valley on a very hot day in a Motel. Didion starts with her mind thinking about “moraility” and it moves to thinkinking about “particulars.” Didion mentions "social code" here and associates that with "wagon-train mor...

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