English

Alfred Bird

23 August, 19:52

Which words best describe the narrator's voice in

this passage?

It's clear that this really pretty sincere yellow

Dean at left is Admissions. And surely the

little aviarian figure at right is Athletics, then,

because the facial creases of the shaggy

middle Dean are now pursed in a kind of

distanced affront, an I'm-eating-something-

that-really-makes-me-appreciate-the

presence-of-whatever-I'm-drinking-

along-with-it look that spells professionally

Academic reservations.

- Infinite Jest,

David Foster Wallace

Answer: imaginative and observant

What effects does naming the deans only by their titles have?

Answer: it distances the narrator and makes the deans seem less like people