Joan Didion's Stylistic Elements

Joan Didion utilizes stylistic elements such as imagery, diction, and detail throughout each of the three parts of the passage in order to convey her fear and awe of the horrendous and aberrant Santa Ana winds, simultaneously revealing the primal and often times violent ways man reacts to external stimuli and correcting the mistaken belief that he is not subject to the whims of nature. Didion paints through her writing the true nature of the winds. These phenomena are first introduced through words such as "uneasy" and "unnatural." Immediately, the reader has a sense of eerie foreboding and anxiety, though the author has not yet named what is the source of this fear. It is at this point that the author establishes a connection between man