makes him seek out what he can do to make the inevitability of death seem less strange. In a conversation later in the book between Jack and Winnie, she says "Self, self, self. If death can be seen as less strange and unreferenced, your sense of self in relation to death will diminish, and so will your fear." He asks, "What do I do to make death less strange? How do I go about it?" And she replies, "I don't know" (Delillo 229). This is a turning point for Jack where he is beginning to realize they must enjoy these aimless days while we can (DeLillo, 2058). Jack is faced with death every day, through the media and through his wife who is equally afraid. Jack believes that he and his wife tell each other everything" (Delillo 2065). However, she is so afraid that when see sees an advertisement for a drug that will eliminate the fear of death she jumps at the chance to take it, hiding it from Jack. This is also to lead to more heartache for Jack, not just because his wife, Babette, also has the same fear but that it is so great she will go to extreme lengths to eliminate the fear. When she finds out the tests for the drug she applied for have been cancelled she ends up sleeping with Dylar to get this medication. Babette's fear may be worsened by her reading of tabloid papers to the elderly as she see death in a strange way everything she does this both in the papers and in those whom she reads them to, just as Jack is working with a figure which represents death. The book in this way demonstrates that the fear it deals with is that of a personal level rather than a social level, and in this Hitler can make an individual death seam immaterial. The idea of death to Jack is always present, even when not in collage or at home. In a supermarket Murray puts an idea into Jacks head regarding "hypothetically killing someone" (Delillo 38).Jack then comes face to face with death, but still not his fear of it. Jack is exposed to a dangerous chemical...
