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read this excerpt from \goodbye to all that\ by joan didion.
but to those of us who came from places where no one had heard of lester lanin and grand central station was a saturday radio program, where wall street and fifth avenue and madison avenue were not places at all but abstractions (\money,\ and \high fashion,\ and he hucksters\), new york was no mere city.
which statement best explains the impact that the allusion to he hucksters,\ a hollywood film set in new york, has on the meaning of the text?
it helps didion express her sense that there was no difference between the new york presented in the movies and the one in which she and millions of other people lived.
it helps didion convey the idea that her initial conception of new york city was based on intangible ideals and fictional depictions rather than concrete experiences and reality.
it allows didion to suggest that she was unique among those who came to new york from elsewhere because she alone had developed a mental picture of the city based on film depictions of it.
it allows didion to highlight how much she—someone who actually lived in new york—differed from those who only experienced the city through idealized depictions in the movies.

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no additional details were added for this assignment.
read this excerpt from \goodbye to all that\ by joan didion.
but to those of us who came from places where no one had heard of lester lanin and grand central station was a saturday radio program, where wall street and fifth avenue and madison avenue were not places at all but abstractions (\money,\ and \high fashion,\ and 	he hucksters\), new york was no mere city.
which statement best explains the impact that the allusion to 	he hucksters,\ a hollywood film set in new york, has on the meaning of the text?
it helps didion express her sense that there was no difference between the new york presented in the movies and the one in which she and millions of other people lived.
it helps didion convey the idea that her initial conception of new york city was based on intangible ideals and fictional depictions rather than concrete experiences and reality.
it allows didion to suggest that she was unique among those who came to new york from elsewhere because she alone had developed a mental picture of the city based on film depictions of it.
it allows didion to highlight how much she—someone who actually lived in new york—differed from those who only experienced the city through idealized depictions in the movies.

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# Brief Explanations:
The excerpt states that for the author and others from outside New York, NYC was an abstraction shaped by media like "The Hucksters" (a fictional film), not real experience. The correct option aligns with this: the allusion shows their initial idea of NYC came from fictional, intangible depictions, not concrete reality. Other options are incorrect: the first claims no difference between film and real NYC (contradicts the excerpt's focus on abstraction), the third says the author was unique (the text refers to "those of us," a group), the fourth focuses on her difference from movie-only viewers (the text is about her initial pre-arrival perception, not post-residence difference).
# Answer:
It helps Didion convey the idea that her initial conception of New York City was based on intangible ideals and fictional depictions rather than concrete experiences and reality.

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