Joan Didion is a well-known contemporary female author who is excelled at writing fictions and other literary genres. Didion is a novelist, also a screen writer and journalist. Play It As It Lays is her second novel which gained good reputation after its published. In the book, the female protagonist, Maria, is unhappy because of the patriarchal society she lives in, which doesn’t allow her to be herself. The concept of the word patriarchal is “a form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family” (dictionary.com) Maria is clearly suffered by the authority of her father and her husband; she obeys their rules while she does not agree with them. Writers like Joan Didion are writing books like Play It As It
