David Foster Wallace in Doubletakes Essay -- David foster Wallace Doub

David cheer W all(prenominal)ace in DoubletakesThe one author whose style I could appreciate closely and who I could connect with best in Doubletakes was David Foster Wallace. His ability to see one moment that most people would normally take for granted and to freeze this moment manage it is occurring in slow motion, taking into cypher all five human senses (touch, sight, smell, taste and hearing), color imagery, similes, metaphors and all of his rummy description of the scenes surrounding the actions of the main character really make him behave out in my mind. By taking an event so seemingly trivial (for example the act of climbing up and jumping hit of a diving board in Forever Overhead), Wallace forces his readers to appreciate all aspects of life, especially the minor details. This is what appeals most to me about Wallace because I too like to point out small, seemingly insignificant events in my writing and cat them under a microscope so to force the reader to think much seriously about mundane actions. Wallaces characterization is fairly elemental on the surface, as he seems to ...