Editing Infinite Jest (section)

===Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House===
* '''Don Gately''', a former thief and [[Demerol]] addict, and current counselor in residence at Ennet House. One of the novel's primary characters, Gately is physically enormous and a reluctant but dedicated [[Alcoholics Anonymous]] member. He is critically wounded in an altercation with several Canadian men, and much of the later part of the novel involves his inner monologue while he recuperates in a Boston hospital. Gately had a complicated childhood. His stepfather abused his mother. During his middle-school and high-school years, Gately's size made him a formidable football talent. During his period as an addict and burglar, he accidentally kills M. DuPlessis, a leader of one of the many separatist Québécois organizations featured in the novel. Gately is visited by the ghosts of James O. Incandenza and Lyle.
* '''Joelle van Dyne''', also known as "Madame Psychosis" (cf. [[metempsychosis]]), a stage name she received from James Incandenza when she starred in his films (and later her on-air name in her radio show "60+/−"). She became acquainted with James through her college relationship with Orin Incandenza, who referred to her as "The Prettiest Girl of All Time", or P.G.O.A.T. She appears in the lethally addictive Entertainment, reaching down toward a wobbly "neonatal" lens as if it were in a bassinet and apologizing profusely, her face blurred beyond recognition. Extremely beautiful as a young woman, Joelle later becomes a member of the Union of the Hideously and Improbably Deformed (U.H.I.D.), and wears a veil to hide her face. According to Molly Notkin, Joelle's face was disfigured by a beaker of acid her mother threw, intending to hit Joelle's father, who had just revealed he was in love with her (Joelle). Joelle says she wears the veil because her superlative attractiveness plagued her throughout her life, causing her to suffer social and romantic isolation until she met Orin. Joelle tries to "eliminate her own map" (that is, [[suicide]]) in Notkin's bathroom by massive ingestion of freebase [[cocaine]], which lands her in Ennet House as a resident. Gately and Joelle develop a mutual attraction.
* '''Randy Lenz''', a "small time organic-coke dealer who wears sportcoats rolled up over his parlor-tanned forearms and is always checking his pulse on the inside of his wrists". An Ennet House resident, he constantly asks the time but refuses to wear a watch and regularly violates the sobriety rule.
* '''Geoffrey Day''', an Ennet House resident who struggles with the clichés of AA. He comes to Ennet House after putting his car through a sporting-goods store window.<ref>{{Cite web |title=David Foster Wallace, 'Infinite Jest' And Lessons In Empathy-The ARTery |url=http://www.wbur.org/artery/2016/03/07/david-foster-wallace-empathy |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001235857/http://www.wbur.org/artery/2016/03/07/david-foster-wallace-empathy |archive-date=2018-10-01 |access-date=2019-07-29}}</ref>