White Noise Characters

Professor Hitler Jack is the top North American expert in (wait for it) a subject that he totally made up. If only we could all do that… sigh. We might declare ourselves the top North American...

Mother? Babette is a careful mother who fawns over her children. But in a humorous way, her children tend to parent her just as much as she parents them. As Jack Gladney tells us, "Denise was ele...

Weirdo? Or The Only Guy Who Knows What's Going On? No getting around it. Murray's a odd duck, but he's also probably the smartest character in this book. He's sort of a spiritual guide for Jack G...

Seriously, What is Rain? Like Jack, you might find Heinrich a bit annoying. Heinrich is Mr. Anti-Common Sense in this book. He always challenges any statement of fact, no matter how simple it mig...

Jack Gladney puts it best: Denise is "a hard nosed kid [who leads] a more or less daily protest against those of her mother's habits that struck her as wasteful or dangerous" (2.29). Being a kid,...

Wilder doesn't have any lines in this book. But hey, Maggie Simpson never has any lines either, and she's a central character in The Simpsons. Wilder is three years old, but he hasn't quite gotten...

Willie is a walking advertisement for why you shouldn't resort to drugs to solve your problems. Like Jack and Babette, Willie seems to have a brutal fear of death. He fears death so much that he's...