Summary Of Toward The End Of Something Or Other By David Foster Wallace

In Certainly the End of Something or Other David Foster Wallace reviews John Updike’s novel Towards the End of Time. The review begins with Wallace presenting his thesis: “Toward the End of Time is also, of the let’s say two dozen Updike books I’ve read, far and away the worst, a novel so clunky and self-indulgent that it’s hard to believe the author let it be publish in this kind of shape.” (Wallace, 52.) From this claim David Foster Wallace presents a compelling argument that John Updike’s novel Toward the End of Time is both “clunky” and “self-indulgent.”
Wallace explains that Updike’s excessively embellished style makes it difficult for readers to enjoy Towards the End of Time. Wallace provides multiple excerpts from Towards the End of