Anhedonia and It
It’s worth noting that, among younger E.T.A.s, the standard take on Dr. J. O. Incandenza’s suicide attributes his putting his head in the microwave to this kind of anhedonia. This is maybe because anhedonia’s often associated with the crises that afflict extremely goal-oriented people who reach a certain age having achieved all or more than all than they’d hoped for. The what-does-it-all-mean-type crisis of middle-aged Americans. In fact this is in fact not what killed Incandenza at all.
Context
The essay pauses to correct E.T.A. folklore: the kids read JOI's microwave as attainment-anhedonia, and the narrator flatly says no — a promissory note the wraith material only later redeems. (Both the doubled "in fact" and the "all or more than all than" pile-up are preserved as written.)