The Depressed Person
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"The Depressed Person" is a short story by David Foster Wallace that offers an intense, darkly comic, and psychologically detailed portrait of a woman consumed by self-consciousness and clinical depression.
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story ⓘ |
| author | David Foster Wallace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectedIn | Brief Interviews with Hideous Men NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectionAuthor | David Foster Wallace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectionType | short story collection ⓘ |
| copyrightHolder | David Foster Wallace estate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| firstPublishedIn | Harper's Magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
dark comedy
ⓘ
literary fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasLength | short fiction ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodern literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | an unnamed woman ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
interior monologue
ⓘ
third-person limited ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed depiction of depressive cognition
ⓘ
exploration of self-consciousness ⓘ use of footnotes ⓘ |
| publicationDecade | 1990s ⓘ |
| publicationType | magazine publication ⓘ |
| setting | contemporary United States ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
emotional pain
ⓘ
mental illness ⓘ self-absorption ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| theme |
clinical depression
ⓘ
interpersonal relationships ⓘ narcissism ⓘ psychological suffering ⓘ self-consciousness ⓘ therapy and psychotherapy ⓘ |
| tone |
darkly comic
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intense ⓘ psychologically detailed ⓘ |
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