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White Noise Study Guide

by Don DeLillo

White Noise study guide contains a biography of Don DeLillo, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

The narrator, Jack Gladney, describes the annual arrival of station wagons at his college, College-on-the-Hill. He walks into his quiet town of Blacksmith, where he lives with his wife, Babette, and their four children by previous marriages -- infant Wilder, Denise, Steffie, and Heinrich. He is the chairman and inventor of Hitler studies at the college.

Hitler studies shares a building with the popular culture department. Jack is friends with Murray Jay Siskind, a Jewish visiting lecturer on "living icons." Murray wants to do with Elvis Presley what Jack has done with Hitler. Jack accompanies Murray to the country to "the most photographed barn in America."

Jack goes to the high school stadium and watches Babette run up and down the steps. He…

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• White Noise Summary
• About White Noise
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• Major Themes
• Summary and Analysis of Chapters 1-5
• Summary and Analysis of Chapters 6-10
• Summary and Analysis of Chapters 11-15
• Summary and Analysis of Chapters 16-20
• Summary and Analysis of Chapters 21
• Summary and Analysis of Chapters 22-28
• Summary and Analysis of Chapters 29-35
• Summary and Analysis of Chapters 36-40
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