David Foster Wallace’s “How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart” uncovers the undesirable truth within many autobiographies concerning athletes, the lack of intelligence and the dim-wittedness of the sports memoirs oftentimes disappoint Wallace. Wallace points out the flaws of sports memoirs that falsifies the potential claims that authors are making to generate sales. Wallace argues that authors of the sports memoirs are generally incapable of successfully interpreting the void that encapsulates the success stories of the athletes. Wallace explains the explicitness of the hardships and relentlessness that every athlete must overcome are repeatedly overlooked, “We want to hear about the humble roots, privation, precocity, grim, resolve, discouragement,
