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Blog #25: David Foster and TEWWG


David Foster Wallace’s theory is that when we run on autopilot we don’t think, we don’t think in the right way at the least, we tend to consider the wort scenarios and we become mad at our selves for being in situations that we deem to be unpleasant. Through what put us there in the first place is a single careless mistake what could easily be reverted. Then again if we change the mindset and consider other possibilities for yourself it becomes clear that things could be much worse than they are now. So, your predicament doesn’t seem so bad anymore.

This relates to TEWWG seen especially with the trends of Janie’s relationships. Tea Cake the character is seen very early in the novel as a sort of free spirit, essentially the perfect man for Janie but she is oblivious, like Wallace references that sometimes the best and most important and essential things in life is right in front of us, but we just don’t realize it. As the novel presses and her various relationships don’t end up working out, when she meets Tea Cake and triggers a new thought she releases life is pretty good.

The novel develops emotional intelligence to the reader by making them feel empathy for the journey Janie is going through, we see Logan Killicks being abusive and damaging to Janie, thus we know he is no good and abuses her at a young age and when Nany Crawford disciplines her we feel that there is something wrong in Janie’s journey and her lack of independence is the most striking aspect, as we relate to the context of consumption of the novel our own self-awareness tells us that we need to be independent and work things out for ourselves, this builds personality and diversifies society. So, when we Janie lacking such a fundamental function we become more empathetic since we know that the initial characterization is not Janie, in fact, it is a collage of her husband’s character. This is until she meets Tea Cake do we feel happy for Janie because it is only then when we see Janie.

Hurston’s purpose in how she crafts Janie’s journey of discovery “tuh de horizon and back” is very metaphorical. The horizon is thought to be the best place for someone to be and it forces them to neglect the most essential aspects and elements of life that are right in front of them. Though when she gets to that horizon that is Jody Starks in the context of TEWWG she remembers that she was on autopilot all her life, so she makes the decision to go back to her old friend tea cake. It was a very simple action that tock vary little conscious thought, just as David Foster Wallace suggests in “This is water”

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