I feel like a dork for being the first person to post, but here
goes. You can beat me up and steal my lunch money after class.
One thing that I've noticed about White Noise is that it has a
kind of "movie-like" quality to it, perhaps more than some of
the other books that we've read so far this semester. The
opening scene with the station wagons almost seems to be
presented in a long, steady, panning shot. In the first part of
the book, JAK Gladney is distanced enough from the action to
almost be a kind of director instead of a narrator, or at least
a narrator in the classic sense. This changes as the book
progresses; we begin to get more inside his head, I think.
There's also a bunch of "cross-cut" like moments in the first
part of the book as well, where all of sudden the narrative eye
will go downstairs and look at jeans drying in the dryer (I
don't have my book on me, but it's there) or will turn to look
at Heinrich on the phone...
I dunno, does anybody else have any opinions on this?
T Pontius
tap6u@virginia.edu