IRB #2 Introduction: Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace

For my second IRB of the school year, I have chosen to read Consider the Lobster, by David Foster Wallace. This book comes highly recommended from my father, and APELC seems like the perfect environment through which to understand the book at it's deepest levels. Consider the Lobster is a series of essays, each written and previously published elsewhere by the author. What is unique about this book, and about David Foster Wallace, is his ability to extract meaning and symbolism from every day life. This can be seen in the title text, which bills itself first as an examination and critique of a Maine Lobster Festival, but has the underpinnings of a discussion of man's morality through the lens of consuming lobsters. I look forward to reading Consider the Lobster, and hopefully gaining more knowledge about the world as Wallace observed it.