Joan Didion Research Paper

According to Joan Didion, in order to get married love and planning are not necessities. But there is one question we must ask ourselves: what are the necessities of marriage? Some might argue that love, time, effort, planning, communication, and big elaborate ceremonies are essential to marriage. Although many couples do fall in love and plan out huge elaborate weddings, many couples marry due to various absurd reasons. In a recent survey, hundreds of Las Vegas couples were asked when and why they got married along with various other questions about their relationship. Many of the couples responded saying that they had only known their partner a short time before getting intoxicated and running off to be married. In the state of Nevada, the …show more content…
Long-term heavy drinking can shrink the frontal lobes of the brain, which impairs thinking skills. In Didion’s argument she talks about a wide variety of reasons she found that people have said to have gotten married in Las Vegas for. Didion argues that the younger generation and although less but also in the older generations marriage is not seen as a sacred act or taken seriously, people just get married for the convenience of constant company or in many cases for legal reasons like green cards. Love used to be the number one reason couples got married, today there are various reasons and in many cases love is not one of them. One couple that was mentioned in the story said that they only got married so their unborn child would get the benefits the father’s workplace offered, the couple however could not stand each other and they did not even live in the same household or even in the same town. Didion states that what draws some couples to the strip of chapels in Las Vegas is the overbearing decorations in the front of the buildings, people get caught up in looking at the decorations and the lengthy strip of wedding chapels and signs advertising them and they just talk one another into going through with the