Text 1: Critic Park argues that Don DeLillo's novels diagnose a distinctively American spiritual condition: a society saturated with media, addicted to spectacle, anxious in the absence of meaning. His characters move through landscapes of advertising and disaster footage, searching for signal amid the noise.
Text 2: Critic Singh agrees that DeLillo writes about media-saturated America but argues that Park's "diagnostic" frame imposes a coherence DeLillo deliberately refuses. The novels enact rather than analyze their condition; their fragmentation, repetition, and tonal flatness are themselves symptoms of the world they depict, not authorial diagnoses delivered from outside.
Based on the texts, how would Singh (Text 2) most likely respond to Park's reading?
- Acheck_circle
She would accept the subject matter while arguing that diagnosis misrepresents DeLillo's relation to it.
- B
She would deny that DeLillo writes about media-saturated America.
- C
She would say DeLillo's novels are coherent diagnoses delivered from outside.
- D
She would propose that DeLillo writes only nineteenth-century historical fiction.
Explanation
Singh accepts the subject matter but rejects the diagnostic framing. B captures her position. A, C, and D contradict her.