Infinite Jest

“The U.S.A. of You” (MAJOR CONSTRUCTION ZONE) Rooted in a rich speculative backdrop, David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest is set in O.N.A.N, a interdependent North American state where what is currently known as America, Mexico, and Canada are one. Its acronym may allude to the biblical Onan, signifying this union of nations as a travesty of wasted potential (Hayles 685). It houses a world of cyclical addictions to drugs, overthinking, and entertainment at dangerous costs. Scholar Katherine Hayles

In his celebrated 1,079 page novel set at a tennis academy and addiction recovery house, David Foster Wallace borrows a phrase from Shakespeare’s Hamlet for the title, Infinite Jest. The allusion is grounded in the vital plot device also named ‘Infinite Jest,’ a necromantic film that engrosses the viewer to the point of catatonia and eventually death. The filmmaker is the character James O. Incandenza, who sought to produce a film so radically entertaining that it would affectively tear his son Hal

the two separate entities, the internal and external, perception and reality. This theme manifests as the idea that the ‘other’ can influence the ‘self’, that society controls the individual. Wallace also explores the theme of self and other in Infinite Jest by contrasting the boundary between what goes on inside the characters’ heads and the outside world. Characters such as Millicent Kent feel a sense of loneliness in their own thoughts and consequently seek diversion in something other. Kent alludes

he founds the Enfield Tennis Academy and becomes a prolific film maker. But the chemical influence of depression and alcohol are overall instrumental in his final product. Addicted to the lure of death by depression and alcoholism, Jim creates Infinite Jest consisting of two of the things he finds fatally addictive: his mistress Joelle Van Dyne and

Of all the novelists of the past 25 years, few have had such an aura surrounding their work, life and death as that of David Foster Wallace. His 1996 tome Infinite Jest has found itself on the book shelves of readers of serious adult fiction around the world, and his plethora of essays (which tackled everything from summer blockbusters, to sports, to pornography, to the concept of infinity) are still widely read and dissected in the literary world. In his lifetime, he reached a level of respect and

Infinite Jest page 100-200 starts out with Hal Incandenza and his friends in the locker room at the tennis academy. They talk about miscellaneous topics, but most is just usual stuff that teenage boys talk about. Although, one theme that I find in their conversations is unhappiness. Most of the boys seem exhausted, worn out, and just sick of being there. They go to the cartridge viewer room and start to question why they are even there, because the players on the viewers do not look too happy either

The uniqueness and complexity of David Foster Wallace’s writing earned him a spot among the most influential contemporary authors of his generation. He is most well known for his immense, thousand-page novel Infinite Jest, published in 1996, which grabbed the attention of readers worldwide (Ericson). In addition, throughout his career, he published several other novels, short stories, and nonfiction articles. His most popular works include The Broom of the System, Girl with Curious Hair, Consider

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Next in the long, tiresome quest for knowledge of The Flash, I decided to research The Speed Force, because it will make it easier to understand the answers to the rest of my questions. The Speed Force is the extra-dimensional energy that once powered all of the Flashes' superhuman abilities. It is unknown to the people of the DC universe where the Speed Force comes from, to them it is a great and powerful force that affects everything. The Speed force can be used as a way of transportation, a source

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