![]() ![]() The nearly five-hundred page novel goes into depth about their thoughts on love, life, and relationships while also bringing in side-stories explained as submissions to Vigorous’ magazine which reflect the character’s true motives. Together the characters bounce philosophies off each other which add to the overall feeling of wandering through words. ![]() Even her pet, a cockatiel bird, understands the power of words when one day he suddenly learns how to speak. She places a careful emphasis on words and ideas thanks to her cryptic, MIA grandmother and her boss/lover Rick Vigorous who works as a literary magazine editor. Her character serves to explore the power of language. During this time, he described that his real crisis shifted from “a fear that he was a 98.6☏ calculating machine to a fear that he was nothing but a linguistic construct.”īeadsman’s purpose extends farther than metafiction, however. Her feeling that someone-like an author-is controlling her seems laughable and ironic on the outside, but mirrors the mindset Wallace said he experienced while writing this novel as his undergraduate thesis. ![]() "The Broom of the System" features a very interesting cast of characters, all of whom revolve around Lenore Beadsman, a girl whose existential crisis is the fear that she’s just a character in a book. ![]()
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