Don DeLillo’s White Noise (1985) is a postmodern novel that is critiquing the modern
American culture by connecting consumerism to identity and at the center of it all is death.
For this assignment, we will research and analyze the novel determining its literary importance using
multiple sources.
Prompt: For this essay, identify some of the observations/criticisms Don DeLillo is making in his novel
White Noise about society in the 1980s and how these observations are still applicable to us today.