... thorough failure on the part of the patient to face many of the severe realities of life, death in particular. Don DeLillo's White Noise is a science fiction novel that deals with this phenomenon as it relates to a particular American family. DeLillo dwells largely on the effects that this instant satisfaction, aided by technology and excessive consumption, has on contemporary Americans. There ... are various scenes throughout the novel White Noise in which Don DeLillo makes it obvious that the characters are "feeding off of" consumerism and technology. " In the sense of replenishment w...

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