Elana Bilberry's The Falling Down

The article of “The Falling Down” which written by Elana Bilberry deeply explores the phenomenology of the late capitalism and how it changes the relationship in the global and local scale. It described a man who calls D-Fens experiences a series of difficulties and troublesome on his way to home. And during the journey, he also met another man who continually defers his homecoming. Their stories and the moment of the bodies illustrate a crucial body-city connections. Both of their bodies are infected by the Losn Angeles partitioned spaces, which including the social and ethnic. When the protagonist, D-Fen faces the pressure of contemporary urban living and suffers in the painful traffic jam, he chose to abandon his car and leave the freeway