The novel centers around a film he made titled Infinite Jest which stars the PGOAT (Prettiest Girl of All Time), Joelle Van Dyne. Married to Avril Incandenza and father to Hal, Oren and Mario, James Incandenza is a physicist who leaves the world of science to found Enfield Tennis Academy and to pursue après-garde filmmaking where he makes a name for himself. The novel's main plot revolves around Hal's relationship to thought and language. Hal eats a mysterious mold as a child that leads him to be a completely meta-cognitive person with little or no passion for much of anything at all. Hal's relationship to the suicide of his father has led many to conclude that Hal is a type for Shakespeare's Hamlet. Hal is the youngest of Avril Incandenza's three boys. The protagonist of the novel and a student at Enfield Tennis Academy.
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