Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

In “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men” David Foster Wallace talks about how he fell in love with this woman he had met in the park. When he met this woman he had no intention of her being anything more than a one night stand. When he had actually approached her he was nothing less than honest and respectful. They eventually went back to the house and did what he planned on doing. They started talking and she told him an anecdote of a time when she was hitchhiking and was picked up by a psychotic sex offender. She explained to him her whole experience with the sex offender and it was during that time he fell for her. He admired the way she told the story without telling it in a way to get certain reactions out of him. During the interview he also explained that how him and the sex offender were the same. Even though he treated her with the upmost respect that was no different from the sex offender picking her up from on side of the road and taking advantage of her. They also came to the conclusion that the people labeled as psychotic are not the bad people. They are the people that is scared and running but don’t really know how to escape.