A. One warrant that David Foster Wallace has in his essay is that people can carry on with their lives eating lobster not knowing the history and what the lobster signifies in the ocean.
B. I think that this essay isn't about just the festival but for people to really understand what they are eating. A lobster is an animal, and during these festivals they're being killed one by one in giant clusters just for this one day. It is to alert the reader that lobsters are being brutally killed. We as people tend to ignore the brutality that is the killing of live animals. It is easier just to not think about the harm than good that we are doing. Most people only think about benefitting themselves, and in our society today- people see eating lobster as this classy dish - so they eat more of it without thinking twice. They don't realize that they were once the animals of the sea that people wouldn't even touch, and were fed to prisoners on occasion. Wallace analogizes that these these people eating lobster are people turning a blind eye to situations that are difficult to talk about in society. I would not have published this article in a Gourmet magazine because this article didn't really speak to me, and made lobsters less appetizing.
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