In Don Delillo's book, White Noise, he confronts this awareness and the effects that it has on the daily lives of a typical American family. Delillo easily constructs a scene where the Gladney family is gathered in front of the television set watching the evening news. ... We had never before been so attentive to our duty, our Friday assembly- -Stephie, brought close to tears by a sitcom husband arguing with his wife, appeared totally absorbed in these documentary clips of calamity and death- (Delillo 64). ... This undertaking is questioned in Delillo's White Noise when Jack asks, "W...

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