DFW truly has a gift with creating characters with such detail that you can't help but empathize. He paints vivid images that makes it almost effortless to put myself into the story. In "Forever Overhead" DFW goes into more detail than most people would be comfortable with. His details of the boys transition into manhood really capture Karr's idea of being honest and connecting with the audience. Everyone goes through the struggle of wanting to be grown up. Karr says she feels that she owes her readers "a vivid experience without lying", and DFW defiantly does this in his piece. Once I finished reading "Forever Overhead" I realized that DFW was able to take a simple story of a boy getting enough courage to go off of a diving board, and create it into a long story through the amount of detail he incorporated into the piece. This seems like such a simple story but DFW adds depth and life lessons and struggles.
Brooke Beidler
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