This essay claims that “The baby frets” and “The maid sulks” during a time period when a neighbor claims to hear trespassers and rattlesnakes. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this essay, which compares its title phenomenon to a foehn (“fun”) and describes a series of calamities over 14 days in 1957 in Los Angeles.
ANSWER: “The Santa Ana” [accept “The Santa Anas”]
[10e] Didion’s “The Santa Ana” cites this author’s depiction of the Santa Ana as causing fights. This detective writer set many of his works featuring Philip Marlowe, such as The Big Sleep, in Los Angeles.
ANSWER: Raymond Chandler [or Raymond Thornton Chandler]
[10m] “The Santa Ana” also claims that this book’s depiction of fire resonated because of fires caused by the Santa Ana. In this Nathanael West novel, Tod Hackett tries to paint “The Burning of Los Angeles.”
ANSWER: The Day of the Locust
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, American Literature>