White Noise Review by Don DeLillo
Jayne Anne Phillips article on
White Noise Don DeLillo’s
“White Noise” is an allaround book with a lot of confusing themes that including, a fear of death, technology as the enemy and loss of definite identity and
American consumerism. DeLillo’s approach for representing these themes can be hard to find. By analyzing the books title “White Noise” and understanding DeLillo’s reasoning is a lot less complicated. Excerpts from the New York Times Book Review on
“White Noise,” a four page article written by Jayne Anne Phillips in January of 1985, shortly after “White Noise” was originally published, analyze these themes and break down the various components that make up DeLillo’s idea of what precisely white noise is and the role it plays on America as a society. Jack Gladney is a professor of Hitler Studies at a University. Jack has a wife,
Babette and the two of them live with their children from previous marriages. Jack also has a best friend at the university named Murray Siskind. Murray is a strange man but
Jack thinks he is an interesting wise man in an unusual way. One day, Jack looks out his window and sees a huge puff of smoke coming from a yard near by his home.
Heinrich, his son tells him that it is a lethal gas that kills laboratory animals. Jack did not think it was a big deal but a minute later he hears over the radio that everyone in their town needs to evacuate. While evacuating, Jack unintentionally uncovers himself to the toxic gas Later on he finds out that the gas will kill him, but unsure when it will happen.
As thing got worse he found out his wife has slept with another man to get drugs. Jack concludes that that Babette is an addict. When Jack questions her about the drugs she takes she end up admitting that she's uses an experimental drug called Dylar. Dylar is supposed to take away the fear of death. Both Babette and Jack has had a fear of death. Jack insists on Barbette to tell him who the drug dealer
White Noise Don DeLillo’s
“White Noise” is an allaround book with a lot of confusing themes that including, a fear of death, technology as the enemy and loss of definite identity and
American consumerism. DeLillo’s approach for representing these themes can be hard to find. By analyzing the books title “White Noise” and understanding DeLillo’s reasoning is a lot less complicated. Excerpts from the New York Times Book Review on
“White Noise,” a four page article written by Jayne Anne Phillips in January of 1985, shortly after “White Noise” was originally published, analyze these themes and break down the various components that make up DeLillo’s idea of what precisely white noise is and the role it plays on America as a society. Jack Gladney is a professor of Hitler Studies at a University. Jack has a wife,
Babette and the two of them live with their children from previous marriages. Jack also has a best friend at the university named Murray Siskind. Murray is a strange man but
Jack thinks he is an interesting wise man in an unusual way. One day, Jack looks out his window and sees a huge puff of smoke coming from a yard near by his home.
Heinrich, his son tells him that it is a lethal gas that kills laboratory animals. Jack did not think it was a big deal but a minute later he hears over the radio that everyone in their town needs to evacuate. While evacuating, Jack unintentionally uncovers himself to the toxic gas Later on he finds out that the gas will kill him, but unsure when it will happen.
As thing got worse he found out his wife has slept with another man to get drugs. Jack concludes that that Babette is an addict. When Jack questions her about the drugs she takes she end up admitting that she's uses an experimental drug called Dylar. Dylar is supposed to take away the fear of death. Both Babette and Jack has had a fear of death. Jack insists on Barbette to tell him who the drug dealer