AP Eng Lit Essay #3 Question

schachwhiz
Tue, 08 May 2012 22:49:26 +0000

Infinite Jest is definitely of literary merit. However, I don’t know if you’ve truly understood its themes the same way that you have for, say, Huck Finn, or Portrait of the Artist as Young Man, etc. In these books, your teacher taught you how to extricate the meaning from the text. In IJ, while a fantastic book, has many ironic and paradoxical themes that you probably don’t even know about, if you’ve only read it once. I’d recommend using another book.