95 pages 3 hours read

David Foster Wallace

Infinite Jest

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

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Essay Topics

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How does Hal Incandenza describe his alienation from society? How does he try to remedy this?

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The Wheelchair Assassins want to use the Entertainment to gain Quebecois independence. To what degree are their motives sympathetic?

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How does Infinite Jest use footnotes to describe the totality of existence?

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