Essays on Don DeLillo

Analysis of White Noise by Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo’s White Noise is a post-modern American novel that revolves around Jack Gladney; the professor and founder of Hitler studies at a Midwestern college called the College-at-the-Hill. The novel has been credited as an accurate portrayal of the American way of life. Leonard Orr (2007 7) in Don DeLillo’s White Noise: A Reader’s Guide observed that White Noise is “realistic in its portrayal of American life than his other works.” Similarly, Jayne Anne Phillips (1985 n.p) in White Noise by Don DeLillo expressed a similar sentiment when she noted that the novel was timely, “precisely because of its ...

Literature & Film Final Essay

Introduction The protagonist Erick Packer believes if he would be dead, then that would not be his end, but the end of the world. This shows how valuable characters in the movies think they are to the world, to a point of their individual losses being loss to the whole world. The situation rather shows of infiltration in the society to the point where self-war in the mind and body can mutually indicate self-war with the society. Characters in the play and novel face individual challenges that haunt their daily lives. However, these challenges do not end at individual ...

Mao II is a novel which was written by Don DeLillo and published by the Scribner on 20/06/1991. The 265-page text is the tenth novel by this award winning author. It gives a story of Bill Gray, an eccentric novelist who leads an extra-ordinary life. After a successful completion of his two novels, he finds himself in a limbo when he deliberately opts to incomplete his third book. He does this believing that its exposure to the masses will be of no benefit, but ruin his agenda for writing it. However, this does not come to be, since he abandons his solitude lifestyle ...

"As a writer, after getting over the idea that I had to know only one truth, I realized that my problem is that I have too much truth to tell rather than too little." --Maxine Hong Kingston

These words of author Maxine Hong Kingston reflect a very unique take on postmodernism. According to the tenets of postmodernism, there is no real absolute truth; the subjective nature of the world allows for everyone to have a different perspective on reality and "truth." With this in mind, Kingston speaks to a unique capability for authors and writers to express this ambiguity of truth; since all ...