The way he closes with the callback to the disabled child gets me everytime. Wallace is my favorite modern (post-post-postmodern?) essayist. "Consider the Lobster" is great as well.
Please everybody, do yourself a favor and enlighten yourself by reading this beautiful, articulate analytical essay of the masterpiece Oedipus Rex. http://www.scribd.com/doc/91/It-seems-this-essay-was-written-while-the-guy-was-high-hilarious-