The injustice of Wallace's story commands our attention but his perspective on white middle-class mores fuels plenty of low-key comedyĮspecially troubling to them is Wallace’s wish to keep private the recent death of his father. The novel’s ever-present crackle of jeopardy owes much to his weary recognition that whatever he says or does, he must above all consider the sensitivities of his supposedly benign white friends, who view him as a mirror in which to assess their own lives, often in self-congratulatory fashion. While his work life is more or less Kafkaesque – he soon finds himself branded a misogynist – the racism he faces isn’t limited to the lab.
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