The Importance Of Point Of View In David Foster Wallace's This Is Water

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In literature, writers are constantly trying to understand as well as define the correct and best ways to see our world. Looking at David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water” along with Akiko Busch’s “Kick Flipping New York”, these authors explain how they feel we independently observe reality, and what can cause us to view it differently. Busch and Wallace go into depth on how these ideas assist us in discovering the truth of any given situation. Wallace’s point of view revolves around contemplating the world from a selfish point of view, saying that we view it from our “default-setting” as well as seeing our lives in a contrasting way would require us to perpetually work against this idea that is hardwired into us at birth. In Busch’s piece, she discusses how we think about our presence, first with a “narrow and limited view”, but then what will cause us to examine it abnormally is by understanding the way everyone can transform this limited view into a larger view that can end up accommodating them.
This “default-setting” that David Foster Wallace describes in “This is Water” is something that he believes people don’t like to discuss; this …show more content…
After bringing her twin sons to New York, it became clear how she saw her life before her mind expanded. “Our view, indeed our entire experience, of places so often begins with a single image, a narrow and limited view.” She understood that you must “choose your own terms” in the way you see how something is made up, like in the way her skateboarder sons saw New York City. The dull buildings in the city were seen by her boys as “marble ledges, stair sets, benches, platforms on which all manner of tricks can be practiced.” The twins transformed city to accommodate them as well as entertain them. With doing that, it caused her to see to her presence in a changed
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