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All her novels are dreams, illusion, and despair! It's a dying dream of an overdosed man named Dalton. Those cliche Freudian family issues are actually Susan Sontag's own reflection from her rootless Childhood. I don't agree with those critics that Death Kit is not a successful novel. It's an experimental novel, some parts it went too freer, and readers just way too impatient to digest it and feel it. Sontag suggests "we need to see more, to hear more, to feel more" in Against Interpretation essay, but in the reception of Death Kit, people don't feel it.

Against Interpretation is not a slogan to prevent novel from being deeply dug, instead, it is a gesture to keep critics from over-interpreting any novel in political, moral or social meanings. Even without too much interpretation, we could understand that Death Kit is a conduit of French thoughts and German psychological theories which Sontag was too familiar with.

Death Kit might be a little bit like Kafka's Das Schloß, esp. Sontag herself is a big fan of Kafka. Also more important is, it is about Death, we only can try to feel it.