In the article Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace develops the idea that extreme inhumane measures are taken when consuming lobsters. Initially Wallace presents a common setting, the Maine Lobster Festival, where the reader receives insight on how society perceives an event that is specifically meant to prepare and devour lobsters. Wallace effectively speaks out by describing how they are caught, contained and eventually consumed. By educating the audience, Wallace hopes to bring ethics to a cruel custom by reminding the reader that the food we consume was once living. As a foundation for his claim, Wallace educates the audience by providing simple background information over the lobster’s history and anatomy. Wallace takes the reader