Refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of the narrative. 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 “the hucksters”), new york was no mere city. which statement best explains the impact that the allusion to "the hucksters," a hollywood film set in new york, has on the meaning of the text? 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 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 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. it 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.