Hi, need to submit a 1000 words essay on the topic David Foster Wallace and the Demon Depression Life Mirrors Art.Download file to see previous pages... David Foster Wallace had a unique writing style

Hi, need to submit a 1000 words essay on the topic David Foster Wallace and the Demon Depression Life Mirrors Art.

David Foster Wallace had a unique writing style and imagery that, as is usual with deep thinkers, was as funny and as intoxicating as it was dark and surreal. His style incorporated an ironic as well as an earthy self-deprecating humor and wry wit. The sheer width of his subject matter – from everyday topics like his feelings on 9/11 to the films to life to leisure to politics to tennis to words and writing was as astonishing as it was captivating. His scope, his style and his command of language defied logic, definition and pigeonholing. His clever use of words to interpose irony with poignant honesty made him at once readable and at the same time too deep to comprehend.

The sum total of his work revealed the one true and honest fact that he could not hide with layers of fictional characters, situations and dry wit – what a deep, twisted and tortured soul he sought to escape by finding solace in words and make believe. Wallace suffered from depression for all of his life. His writing, his dark moods, his inexplicable dry humor all served to form a thick outer crust that hid his addictions and his deeply felt anxiety. He used the melancholia that he suffered from not as a crutch to be used as an excuse but rather as a springboard from which he was able to burst forth with creativity, vigor and verve. As is usual with a star that shines so bright, its internal heat and the depth of feeling within was far too much and while the rest of the literary world was content to watch with awe and gaze at the brightness and drink in the warmth of expression, he was burning up inside, eventually consuming himself in that awful suicide (Winner). Some of the works of Wallace included some very candid and almost personal characterizationson the issue of depression. One of his works titled “The Depressed Person” is a thinly veiled but self-conscious examination of an account of a woman suffering from depression. This heavily footnoted work – at some point the footnotes were even more than the actual story – showed Wallace in his element, funny and revealing. He shows in this work a detailed knowledge of the internal workings of the mind of the depressed person and the internal struggle that takes place within them and eventually possesses them – an experience that Wallace was all too familiar with as he struggled with depression for a larger part of his life. The story relates the depressed woman’s interactions with herb therapist, friends and her support group and is as moving as it is intimate and sincere. In the story the depressed person relies on the telephone as the main means of communications, showing the isolation caused by today’s supposedly all-reaching communications where you cannot even tell if the person talking to you on the phone or responding to your email is rolling their eyes or being insincere in their communication. This stands for the isolation, loneliness and solitude that a depressed person battles with. In the book Infinite Jest, Wallace talks about the struggles of a “psychotically depressed” person and the motivations that push him towards committing suicide by falling from a great height, trying to explain the terror that so inhabits one’s mind that it surpasses the fear of falling in a suicidal leap.