Joelle I said earlier that not one of my favorite characters precisely, but the scene of the Thanksgiving dinner where Orin presents the whole family Incandenza Joelle and his girlfriend loved it. As in most scenes 'Infinite Jest' not happen a lot and the reader must try to find the hidden meaning behind these scenes trivial. It's about looking without knowing what you're looking for. And can you finish it finding more of you end up telling of the novel. Joelle is that Avril, Incandenza Mommy, there's something you do not like, which makes the hair stand on end, but do not know what to say, because Avril is perfectly polite, friendly and does not even seem false. We, the readers, Avril probably also put us the creeps and we do not know why. Yes, it's cool with your kids, but not only that. What puzzles me most is that we have no evidence or will your children or you do not want them. Also from the beginning know that something is wrong to Hal, who is not happy, but not even a sample of it, but we intuit could not explain why.
I think one of the great virtues of David Foster Wallace is to transmit a series of intuitions or feelings that can not be explained rationally. DFW is always ambiguous and subtle. DFW he describes the scenes hinting that underneath there is more than what you see, but it's our job to determine what lies beneath. That is why I love it, because it treats the reader as a passive, but as one asset that has to do their part to interpret the novel. I'm sure that if several people are wondering what's going 'Infinite Jest' responses vary much: they coincide with some of the key issues (addiction, entertainment), but would many responses that would be really mixed. And that is admirable in a work.
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