In “Goodbye to All That,” Joan Didion describes her first night in New York when she was fascinated by the summer rain but fighting a fever in an over-air-conditioned room. Looking back, she comments on her own youth and naïveté, asking the rhetorical question, “Was anyone ever so young?”

Which textual detail in this section helps emphasize Didion’s youth and naïveté?


She mentions that she really thought she would marry her boyfriend from home by that spring.


She thinks that she is sick because she wore the wrong clothes on the plane from California to New York.


She describes how she calls her family doctor in California rather than one in New York.


She recalls how she thought she could see the Brooklyn Bridge, but that it was actually the Triborough Bridge.