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He has a difficult relationship with both his parents.

Hal is as prodigiously intelligent and talented as the other members of his family, but insecure about his abilities (and eventually his mental state). Hal Incandenza is the youngest of the Incandenza children and arguably the protagonist of the novel, the events of which take place largely during his senior year at ETA.Her nickname among the family is "The Moms." Avril and Orin are no longer in contact with each other. She has an obsessive-compulsive need to watch over ETA and her two youngest sons, Hal and Mario, who live at the school. In one scene, James, speaking to Hal, refers to his "mother's cavortings with not one not two but over thirty Near Eastern medical attachés." She has a phobia of uncleanliness and disease, and is also described as agoraphobic. Her sexual relationships are a matter of some speculation/discussion one with John "No Relation" Wayne is depicted. A tall, beautiful Québécoise, she becomes a major figure at the Enfield Tennis Academy after the death of her husband and begins, or perhaps continues, a relationship with Charles Tavis, the new head of the academy and her either half- or adoptive brother. Avril Incandenza, née Mondragon, is the (covertly) domineering mother of the Incandenza children and wife of James.The family also refers to him as 'The Mad Stork' or 'The Sad Stork'.

His nickname among the family is Himself. He is a notoriously heavy drinker, preferring Wild Turkey whiskey. He appears in the book mainly either in flashbacks or as a ghost, having committed suicide by placing his head in a microwave oven. It is suggested that he can create and view the Entertainment without becoming entranced because at the time of its creation he is already insane. He was strongly attached to Joelle Van Dyne, his son Orin's strikingly beautiful girlfriend, and used her in many of his films, including the fatal Entertainment. Infinite Jest or "the samizdat"), an enigmatic and fatally seductive film that was his final and most cherished creation. He is the creator of the Entertainment (a.k.a.

James Orin Incandenza, an optics expert and filmmaker (see "Filmography" entries below in External Links), is the founder of the Enfield Tennis Academy.

Many characters are either students and faculty at the school or residents and staff at the halfway house. Enfield Tennis Academy ("ETA") and Ennet House are separated by a hillside in suburban Boston, Massachusetts. The novel's primary locations are the Enfield Tennis Academy, Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House (footnoted "Redundancy sic" in the text), and a conversation between a Quebec separatist and a U.S. Much of what used to be the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada has become a hazardous waste dump known as the "Great Concavity" to Americans and as the "Great Convexity" to Canadians. Corporations purchase naming rights to each calendar year, eliminating traditional numerical designations for example, "The Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment" and "The Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland".

In the novel's future world, North America is one unified state comprising the United States, Canada, and Mexico, known as the Organization of North American Nations (O.N.A.N.). Wallace's working title for Infinite Jest had been A Failed Entertainment. In addition to being the title given to the fictional film central to the story, reviewers have also considered the title a "sly wink at the book's massive girth." The novel derives its name in part from a line in Hamlet, in which Hamlet refers to the skull of Yorick, the court jester: "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!" 3.4 Les Assassins en Fauteuils Roulants.3.3 The Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House.