Conflict vs the Author: The novel White Noise by Don DeLillo has a humanities professor as a protagonist who likes to talk about reducing the number of plotlines in his life. Whenever something interesting happens to him he avoids it, doesn’t investigate, tries to keep his life bland. There’s an interplay between the book trying to present a story about a character and that character taking actions to minimize how narratively interesting his life is.
Conflict vs the Author: The novel White Noise by Don DeLillo has a humanities professor as a protagonist who likes to talk about reducing the number of plotlines in his life. Whenever something interesting happens to him he avoids it, doesn’t investigate, tries to keep his life bland. There’s an interplay between the book trying to present a story about a character and that character taking actions to minimize how narratively interesting his life is.