author’s childhood. It’s mostly written in Hawaiian pidgin, nonstandard English. Its characters are mostly kids around the age of 12, but they look so much older judging by the way they talk, but it is related to the setting. There are many narrators and genres. It’s a series of vignettes. Children are the symbol of naiveté, they represent the in-between of subjugation and complete freedom. A recurrent theme is the love for mainstream American pop culture, like Happy Days, disco music and Charlie’s
In this essay, I argue what it means for Mr. Gray/Willie Mink to be described as a composite figure (183, 293). In White Noise, Mr. Gray/Willie Mink represents a composite of the way in which DeLillo’s society tries to repress fear-of-death: through consumerism, technology and mystical systems, and secrets. Ultimately, however, DeLillo doesn’t give a resolution to how society may overcome death. The wider implication being made is that repressing fear-of-death as a way of living is hardly a way to