middle-classed audience could shorten the harm done by this type of food. Factory farming should stay around with improved conditions because of the cheap benefit for the less fortunate, but less conventional and more organic is the need. According to the same essay previously mentioned, “900 million pounds of pesticide are used annually by U.S. agriculture.” These pesticides are sprayed onto crops to keep insects from eating away at them. According to Michael Pollen, when he asked farmers how much fertilizer
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