"Consider the Lobster"

In “Consider the Lobster,” David Foster Wallace reports on the events of the Maine Lobster Fest and the thoughts those events provoke. What’s effective about his approach of exploring the ideas surrounding MLF? What’s not effective about the approach? What other thoughts do you have about how Wallace approaches the MLF?



In "Consider the Lobster," David Foster Wallace talks about ideas about the Maine Lobster Festival(MLF). He talks about how there's much more to know then most of us care about. He states in the 1800's, lobsters were called low-class food. Now it's a whole new world, where lobsters are considered to be for the upper-classes and not for the "poor" anymore. Wallace states that lobsters were once ruled to be cruel and unusual to eat, but not now, everybody enjoys to eat them now-a-days. Except me. I hate eating lobsters. I only had them about twice in my entire life, because I think it takes way to much work to eat them!! I just like simple foods, because I'm a simple guy. I never knew that lobsters are essentially called "a summer food!" I thought people ate them all year around, and that's why they got sick all year around when they eat too much of them. Ohh well I don't have to worry about that problem, because I don't eat them.



Wallace doesn't see that it's necessary for us to inflict pain on them in order to eat them. It's unbearble to watch them suffer while they are dying. I think that Wallace hates the idea of lobsters being boiled alive and thinks it's cruel for people to do so. other animals suffer in the same way, but this is how we as a nation survive!! other people kills and prepare or foods for us, and there isn't a whole lot for us to do on that note. We have to eat!! but I still feel bad for all the animals that have to die for us to survive. I found that the nervous system of a lobster is very similar to the nervous system of a grasshopper. That's very interesting, and maybe good to know? I dont know, but its kind of fascinating!