Summary Of Good People By David Foster Wallace

As Julius Caesar once said, “No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.” In the short story “Good People” by David Foster Wallace, the unexpected gives us just the uncertainty our lives may bring upon us from time to time. However, this story displays a division of thoughts that one character displays. The story adds religious values and inside thoughts of one character Lane Dean. Dean, being a protagonist and his girlfriend Sheri being the minor character share a common union. Wallace, creates a fictional character whose persona and inner emotions illustrates a division between truth and making a decision. Which both Lane and Sheri take on a dynamic characterization, because the issue of the matter is, both change

However, neither does Dean’s emotions throughout this story. Wallace, makes a big inference in the story by describing Lane and Sheri as a union. By stating they are a union, would mean when together they become united as one. That united front, involved a baby which had Dean’s thoughts jumbled. For example, Dean stated: “he could visualize himself tiptoeing past something explosive” (216). Being that, he couldn’t help but notice the changes in his girlfriend emotions. He felt inclined to say something. However, he didn’t know whether it was the right thing to do. “Her laugh was different” (216). Wallace’s compares the couple’s emotions as being utterly confused. It was the decision of whether to abort or carry. For example, “What if he was just afraid, if the truth was no more than this, and if what to pray for was not even love but simple courage, to meet both her eyes as she says it and trust his heart?” (220). the couple did not know whether to love or not

However, it’s clear to think that from any guy’s prospective at this age would incline, the level of nervousness, responsibility, and feelings of guilt all in one. He felt as if he’d lived a lie, “a two-hearted hypocrite” (219) portraying to be one thing, but doing another. Wallace’s use of religious imagery in this story was very practical. Referring to Isaiah 36, “He might be somewhat of a hypocrite, like the Assyrians in Isaiah, which would be a far graver sin than the appointment—he had decided he believed this” (217). Wallace’s places sinful guilt on his character, adding confusion in Dean’s