1. When I first saw New York I was twenty, and it was summertime, and I got off a DC-7 at the old Idlewild temporary terminal in a new dress which had seemed very smart in Sacramento but seemed less smart already, even in the old Idlewild temporary terminal, and the warm air smelled of mildew and some instinct, programmed by all the movies I had ever read about New York, informed me that it would never be quite the same again.
Although this introductory sentence uses story telling techniques and gives facts about the literal event, the author intertwines tropes, such as the ability to smell instinct and how New York informed the author of the change to come. These two examples are both figurative and metaphoric for her emotions while getting off the plane.
2. Part of what I want to tell you is what it is like to be young in New York, how six months can become eight years with the deceptive ease of a film dissolve, for that is how those years appear to me now, in a long sequence of sentimental dissolves and old-fashioned trick shots...
The author uses the metaphor and visual of a film dissolve to describe her young self and her life in New York. The principle here is the blurring of time and how it passes quickly in New York, and how the author can look back on her history and recognize the nostalgia in her memories.
3. Instead I got married, which as it turned out was a very good thing to do but badly timed, since I still could not walk on upper Madison Avenue in the mornings and still could not talk to people and still cried in Chinese laundries.
Throughout the entire piece, the author uses a lot of repetition and schemes to explain her journey. She will use the same set of words in different phrasing to emphasize the moment or to explain how it changed her/her life. This set of words emphasizes her emotions during the period and how she was so lost, even though she was married. This sentence becomes a trope and metaphor for her state of mind.
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