Consider the Lobster Questions

What genres of writing can you identify in Consider the Lobster?

Research, Non-fiction, review, article

What's so important about footnotes in this article? Be specific. Give an example of how David Foster Wallace uses footnotes.

David Foster uses the footnoots for additional comments. For example, he makes a footnote to define “debeaking” and goes on to explain the details and his personal thoughts.

Does this article shift topics? In what ways? What does David Foster Wallace mean when he says "Consider the Lobster?"

This article does shift topics. He touches on many different topics like the history of lobsters, the anatomy of lobsters, the MLF, the process of cooking the lobsters, and many more.