Don DeLillo

the unfamiliar, the fear of these things—repeatedly emerge in eighties’ texts. Whether it be novels, plays or short stories, the strange, the diseased, the dead and the terror of a combination of these things is strikingly evident. White Noise by Don DeLillo, for example, provides its audience with a depiction of a landscape of fear in the eighties. It reflects how the average American felt about impending doom, about society and the changes in society that were unknown to them. It provides a basis

In Don Delillo’s Underworld, the baseball is sought after as the ultimate goal and a fulfillment in life for Nick and the memorabilia collector. On the other hand, the ubiquitous use of waste throughout the novel is a motif of both the byproduct and the opportunity cost of mankind’s quests for fulfillment. Waste, whether as literal waste, wasted love, wasted lives, or objects all serve as a contrast to the value of the baseball as an object of fulfillment. The baseball Bobby Thomson hit is important

Death is a vapor that seeps through the fissures of life, plunging its way into a person’s existence. Throughout White Noise, Don Delillo uses death to invoke a harrowing fear Jake Gladney and others alike strive to elude. From power to drugs, the terror drives characters to shroud their life with distractions and shields. Jack's influence and power as the chairman of Hitler Studies gives him a sense that a person can be larger than death. Babette’s defense is drugs, attempting to eradicate the fear

Don DeLillo is an American writer born in 1936. DeLillo is a postmodernist and has written eleven books receiving various awards for his work. The title of DeLillo’s eighth novel White Noise brings forth many assumptions towards the overall meaning of the book. If one was to generally interpret the meaning, “white noise” is produced when sound waves are joined together creating a constant buzz. This buzz can produce a relaxing or an overwhelming feeling, depending, if it refers to a repetitive noise

naming things so hard for humans to do? Why does it matter? What difference does a name make? These are all questions raised in Don DeLillo’s White Noise. This novel teaches how to deal with these uncertainties in many different ways. This postmodern take on the human race and their reality of the world discusses why the naming of things has such a high impact. DeLillo suggests this matters because it all comes back to simulacrum, perspective, and questions the reality of these things due to all

Addiction... it is a word that almost everyone is afraid of. The most common addictions are on: cigarettes, drugs or alcohol. There are million cases all around the world connected with these kinds of problems. People are concentrating on them and are not aware that there are less severe kinds such as: Zombie Consumerism. When we buy without thinking, motivated by a super-low price, passion or enormous appetite we are guilty of Zombie Consumerism. Shopping is seen by many addicts as a release from

(Oakeshott) The idea of the lacking of realness is one of the major themes carried out throughout the novel White Noise by Don DeLillo, especially through the device of the television. “For most people there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.” (DeLillo 66) The television in the novel White Noise is portrayed almost as a character and plays a significant

Don DeLillo’s post-9/11 novel portrays the uncertainty constructed by the city through the existence of Eric Parker, a “foully and berserkly rich” manifestation of the 1%. This is a reverberation of socio-economic power and self-destruction in 21st-century America, through a-day-in-the-life postmodernist portrayal of a capitalist asset manager. The fundamental premise of Cosmopolis here is to illustrate the rise (and imminent downfall) of capitalism, the threat of the 99%, the material pursuit of

The Failure of Technology in White Noise by Don Delillo One particularly unfortunate trait of modern society is our futile attempt to use technology to immunize ourselves against the fear of death. The failure of technology in this regard is the general subject of Don Delillo''s book White Noise. Throughout this novel, technology is depicted as the ominous messenger of our common fate, an increasing sense of dread over loss of control of our lives and the approach of inevitable death in spite

promising the slogan for Dash In convenience stores. It is a promise that stopping at their store will improve your life. It is a promise that you are not lying to yourself every time you step through those glass doors. In the book White Noise by Don Delillo, readers experience the story of this kind of lie and it’s consequences. It follows an introspective college professor and his dealings with his fear of death. It does so against the background of a busy family life, full of colorful characters