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This 3 page paper discusses Don DeLillo’s darkly comic novel “White Noise,” and especially the passage detailing the toxic cloud. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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from their fear of death. This paper considers some of the themes of the novel, with a close analysis of the "airborne toxic event." Discussion Professional reviews of the
book have been glowing; Amazon readers havent been as kind, leading one to speculate if it simply went over their heads, or if they, like the characters in the novel,
are finding it difficult to reconcile several extremes at once. The protagonist of the work, Jack Gladney, is a professor at the "College-on-the-Hill in a small Midwestern town; he
teaches "Hitler Studies," of all things, a specialty he invented (DeLillo, 1985). He lives in chaos: his family is a sort of congenial mess of children from previous marriages and
those he has with his present wife, Babette; four of the brood still live at home (DeLillo, 1985). What distinguishes this couple from others is their morbid and ever-present fear
of death. It so dominates their consciousness that they have trouble living. DeLillo has put his finger on the one fear that paralyzes almost all humans; its also the one
we never talk about. The Gladneys dont talk about it either, they simply think about it, to the point where Babette starts experimenting with a dangerous and illegal drug said
to rid a person of the fear of dying. Jack Gladney is not exactly a wholesome specimen, but his wacky and somewhat perverse worldview allows DeLillo precisely the voice he
needs to examine Americas consumer culture and our preoccupation with what comedian George Carlin so memorably called "stuff." DeLillos style is less carefully constructed writing and more like hes just
dumped sentences out of a bucket; the first page of the book describes the arrival of students back at college, and its a virtual laundry list of useless possessions: stereos,
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