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What Are Chapter Three Expatiates Eric's Depression In Physical Space?

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Don DeLillo (1936- ) is an outstanding post-modern novelist, dramatist and prose writer in contemporary American. With a wide range of creative themes and post-modern writing style, DeLillo writes about American society and shows readers the holographic landscape of post-modern society. Cosmopolis is one of DeLillo’s novels, by describing the absurd travel experience of the protagonist Eric Parker in one day, it reveals the influence of science and technology and media on the development of contemporary society and the construction of subject consciousness, which reflects the alienation characteristics of subject consciousness. Based on close reading, this paper attempts to combine Edward Soja’s Thirdspace theory with Cosmopolis and starts …show more content…

Chapter three expatiates Eric’s depression in physical space. Firstly analysis Eric’s depression in a skyscraper and streets, explores the globalization brings multiculture and material satisfaction for the modern, but it also brings depression mood. Then discuss indifference in elevators and limousine, and explores the physical space which is the symbol of wealth and position could bring the depression mood and make people become indifference. Chapter four analysis Eric’s consciousness expression of paranoia in psychological space. In life, his psychological state shows an elite character with extreme narcissism and inferiority, revealing the influence of power and status on Eric’s narcissistic personality. At work, Eric’s arrogant attitude towards acquaintances and strangers and strong possessiveness in love makes Eric difficult to integrate into society and others, and becoming more sober and weird, and shows readers an alienation image like a paranoia. Chapter five focuses on the alienated representation of Eric and Benno Levin in the Thirdspace. Firstly, through analysis Eric’s self-escapement in theater and Benno’s self-isolation in a tenement, explores the alienated self-separation in marginal space. Secondly, it expounds the alienated self-retrospection of the subject in memorial space. By describing Eric’s memories in barbershop and Benno’s memories in an abandoned tenement, expresses the subject’s remembrance for the

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