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Sara Goldfarb Addiction

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This quote discusses Goldfarb’s psychological addiction to television. Selby is trying to portray how Sara Goldfarb is unconscious of her experience and her mind-blowing obsession with the television. Her description and her actions are told through a stream of consciousness making the entire sentence a run-on. Goldfarb describes the infomercial to be “absurdly infantile and intellectually and esthetically insulting”; however, Selby uses repetition to state how “she stared at it”, then “continued to stare and shake her head” and lastly how she “started at them too”. There is the use of alliteration in the words “infantile, intellectually and insulting”. As she continues to stare at the television, “more and more of her mind was absorbed by

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