“Third Person”
George Saunders’s and David Foster Wallace’s speeches to graduating classes show differing views to the aspect of a selfish world. They similarly convey the effort for one to shift their perspective in order to be considerate of others is present, yet they differ in undertone. Saunders’ depicts the path of kindness as progress with an optimistic development in the eyes of retrospective, in contrast to Wallace’s more solemn, immediate depiction of the struggle to be compassionate to humanity with little promise of a better life.
David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water” demonstrated how the typical human being is pre-disposed to the idea of selfishness, especially paired with a mundane life since the only aspect, the mundane “day