se ordinary day, week, month, or year. Didion claims that major world tragedies like September 11 (and arguably Diana's death) occurred seemingly out of nowhere. Ordinariness gave way to extraordinariness. Personal tragedies follow the same pattern, which is how Didion creates social drama out of a personal story. The details she uses to describe the day on which her husband died underscore how ordinary that day was; it would have been like any other had he not had a massive coronary.
             Didion draws connections between her event and others at several points in her story. For example, she shows how a mother of a 19-year old boy killed by a bomb "new" when her son was dead, just as she knew that her husband was dead when she saw the social worker. Drawing connections between disparate events allows Didion to create a quilt work of human tragedy. The story becomes a social drama through her writing, because only throu
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