Joan Didion’s essays “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” and “ Notes From A Native Daughter” are different , but in other ways very alike. In Slouching Towards Bethlehem her main focus is on the people who live in San Francisco rather than the location. She walks us through her experience while visiting San Francisco which I found extremely captivating. Her visit to the “land of promises” during the 60’s shows us how she disapproved most of the things she encountered during her stay. On the other hand ‘Notes From A Native Daughter” was more centralized on the setting rather than the people who lived there which I found uninteresting. She praised the sacramento she grew up in which meant that when the outsiders started migrating in she felt that
