Everything is Green (David Foster Wallace)

Everything is Green is a vignette written by David Foster Wallace. Released in 1988, it is the ninth story in Wallace's collection Girl with Curious Hair and tells of a love between two people who are not on the same page.

Characters[]

Mitch - a somewhat old man
Mayfly - Mitch's somewhat younger lover

Plot[]

While in the kitchen of his trailer with his somewhat younger lover Mayfly, a forty-eight year old man named Mitch listens to her saying that she is telling the truth over something unknown. Mitch tells her that he doesn't care that he is older than her. Mayfly muses that everything is green but Mitch quickly thinks of the various things he can see around him that aren't green. While doing so, Mitch realizes that the relationship will soon be over - if it is not over already - and looks over her body while thinking this.

See also[]

Title	Author	Release date	Significance
Incarnations of Burned Children	David Foster Wallace	2000	A similar vignette by the same author

Works of David Foster Wallace
Novels The Broom of the System, Infinite Jest, The Pale King Short story collections Girl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Oblivion Girl with Curious Hair Little Expressionless Animals, Luckily the Account Representative Knew CPR, Girl with Curious Hair, Lyndon, John Billy, Here and There, My Appearance, Say Never, Everything is Green, Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way Brief Interviews with Hideous Men A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life, Death Is Not the End, Forever Overhead, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (XI), The Depressed Person, The Devil is a Busy Man, Think, Signifying Nothing, Datum Centurio, Octet, Adult World, Church Not Made with Hands, Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (VI), Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko, On His Deathbed, Holding Your Hand, the Acclaimed New Young Off-Broadway Playwright's Father Begs a Boon, Suicide as a Sort of Present, Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (XXIV) Oblivion Mister Squishy, The Soul Is Not a Smithy, Incarations of Burned Children, Another Pioneer, Good Old Neon, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Oblivion, The Suffering Channel Essay collections and nonfiction Signifying Rappers (written with Mark Costello), A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Everything and More, Consider the Lobster, Fate, Time, and Language, String Theory Major and recurring characters Lenore Beadsman, Hal Incandenza, Don Gately, Joelle van Dyne, Rémy Marathe