1. The two homes Didion describes in her story is her home with her husband and baby and her family. She defines her home as the place where her family is.

2. Didion uses imagery in her description of the dust to portray the unchanging and repetitive nature of her family. This can be seen through the quote “D-U-S-T he wrote with his finger through surface throughout the house but no one noticed.” Also Didion seems to have a sense of dread going home because of how “once there” she “falls into their ways which are difficult, oblique, deliberately inarticulate, not my husbands ways.” this tone of dread of how her husband’s feelings towards her family and being home is consistent not only in the quote above but throughout the passage. She also shows dread when she says “he asks what i have been doing, suggests that I… drive to San Francisco or Berkeley. Instead I drive across the river to a family graveyard.”

3. Home, the place not only where I live but where my family does. The constant hustle and bustle continues throughout the day and the sound never seems to fade. Mom in her office clicking away and the repetitive sounds of Ethan bouncing a basketball in the backyard (the thumping noise plays in the head of the people walking by). On some days the bouncing multiplies as our house is open to all, with dogs always welcome these guests with welcoming wagging tails and sniffs. Also my Dad’s talk of “workers comp” and other lawyer jargon confines the home, with confused teenagers listening in.