THE DEPICTION OF MENTAL TRAUMA IN D.DELILLO’S “THE BODY ARTIST”
Abstract
At the beginning of Don DeLillo's short novel The Body Artist (2001), Lauren Hartke and her husband, Ray Robles, are sitting at the breakfast table of their rented seaside house in an unnamed beach town, a typical scene on an ordinary day. They would mix coffee, read the newspaper, pour orange juice or milk from a carton, wait for toast, and exchange short, confused conversations, as if performing a familiar ritual. But it will not be an ordinary day.
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