David Foster Wallace This Is Water Summary
Kyle Gates
Professor Jesse Dobson
English 1301-008
5 September 2014 On May 21, 2005, the author of “This is Water”, David Foster Wallace gave his commencement speech to the graduating class of Kenyon College. Foster Wallace starts his speech with a story of “two young fish swimming along” and neither of them know what water is (Wallace 1). Wallace goes on to say that, “The point of the fish story is merely that the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about” (Wallace 1). Wallace uses the story to portray the idea that we hardly ever want to talk about what is hardest to see. Most of the students the graduating class from Kenyon College are liberal arts majors, and according to Wallace,
Professor Jesse Dobson
English 1301-008
5 September 2014 On May 21, 2005, the author of “This is Water”, David Foster Wallace gave his commencement speech to the graduating class of Kenyon College. Foster Wallace starts his speech with a story of “two young fish swimming along” and neither of them know what water is (Wallace 1). Wallace goes on to say that, “The point of the fish story is merely that the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about” (Wallace 1). Wallace uses the story to portray the idea that we hardly ever want to talk about what is hardest to see. Most of the students the graduating class from Kenyon College are liberal arts majors, and according to Wallace,