ENGA11H3 Final: White Noise
Document Summary
White noise describes an academic year in the life of its narrator, jack gladney, a college professor in a small. The novel itself can be hard to follow, since jack spends much of his time detailing seemingly inconsequential conversations, and several events in the novel have no direct impact on the action of the story. Despite these tangents, a general plotline emerges from the narrative. Jack teaches at a school called the college-on-the-hill, where he serves as the department chair of hitler studies. He lives in blacksmith, a quiet college town, with his wife, babette, and four of their children from earlier marriages: heinrich, steffie, denise, and wilder. Throughout the novel, various half-siblings and ex- spouses drift in and out of the family"s home. Jack loves babette very much, taking great comfort in her honesty and openness and what he sees as her reassuring solidness and domesticity.
