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White Flight: The Graying of Suburbia in DeLillo's White Noise Theoderek Wayne White Noise In addition to addressing the premonitory electricity of death, the title of Don DeLillo's White Noise alludes to another, subtler, sort of white noisethe muted death of suburban white identity.In same way, White Noise can be read as a novel of systems. It has a huge amount of abstractly stated ideas (mostly from Jack, Murray, and Heinrich, but several others along the way) that cohere with the novel's structure; it is up to the reader to navigate these systems and figure them out.No getting around it. Death is everywhere in White Noise. You might not see it at first, except in the ramblings of Murray Siskind. But as the plot of White Noise unfolds, DeLillo strongly hints that everything in life might come down to our omnipresent—and very human—fear of death. All the distractions we fill our lives with, all our attempts to look cool, all the colorful products we.
In fact, White Noise takes many cues from the non-literary commodities of consumer culture and marketing, like, for example, Coca-Cola’s 1980 slogan “Coke is it,” which appears directly in the text. The greatest influence on White Noise, then, is not postmodernism or other pieces of literature, but the rampant commercialism of the 1980s.The title of Delillo's book, White Noise, reminds one of an electronic static of the sort encountered on television when a station goes off the air. But I think white noise can also refer to the indiscriminate flow of information we are exposed to on a daily basis in our modern society, that which ultimately destroys the immediacy of real life.
White Noise was published in 1985 to great critical acclaim; it won the National Book Award and, more importantly, opened up DeLillo's oeuvre to new readers. More than anything, it established DeLillo alongside Thomas Pynchon as one of the most important contemporary writers and a must-have on collegiate syllabi.
