Crying of Lot

Oedipal runs Into people with multiple names and identities, or who are thespian sort compulsive role-players. (She herself gets the name tag Arnold bound stuck on her. ) Later, the men around her start dissolving or disappear In even more drastic ways. Obviously, this sense of psychic discrepancy Is a result of Ponchos method characterization, which gives surface traits rather than psychological deepness still, its good to remember that Hollywood Is not far away.But suppose Hollywood is the world? And suppose Poncho is presenting us with a world without stable selves or identities? Write in any way that interests you or so a few of these characters and the consequences for Oedipal of her encounters with them. -Oedipal herself- plays many roles, beginning we see her as a housewife, later as a student, even as a granddaughter -Banal life at the beginning of the novel (Departure, fondue, kirsch, mixing drinks transcendence to protagonist on snuff it of conspiracy, Like James bon d with affair. Remember at the beginning when she dialog about all the roles she could play. -gets lost and pretends to be a tourist/ shareowner (56) As granddaughter talking to Mr.. Tooth (61) -Voyeur Listener and detective (85) -Pierce- many roles -Did Press- lawyer to actor to lawyer -Metzger- from child star movie/actor to lawyer -Much- railcar salesman to DC to molester/non-law-abider - cliff- (peg 51) -A cross or the Initial T? Could be all in the wells Fargo Incident (60) -Motherly when dateing Genesis Cohen (64) -Arnold Snare (75) -NAZI salesman- micro-cook books Buchwald Ramp Dry.Hilarious Oedipal turned into her normal conscious self for a puny while, tells police her name (95) -Eyewitness (much interviewed her) and Edna moss (peg 97) E) Paranoia and Reading How does the experience of reading The Crying of conduct 49 resemble Oedipal way of making meaning? -I requisite to see if theres a connection. Im curious at the play before Driblet (page -Why is everybody so I nterested in texts? Poncho, via Driblet, speaks to the lector You guys, youre Like the Puritans about the Bible. So hung up with rods, words. 16 This Is not a warning to the reader and Oedipal against Interpretation. Instead, It Is a warning to the reader and Oedipal of the addictive nature of their respective betes. Alphas search Tort ten Orlando version of The Couriers Tragedy, which is obstructed by her unfitness to pick her play from its author, editor or producer, is an exaggerated metaphor of the r traders troubles in making sense of the novel. 17 For our purposes, they serve to wed the readers quest for a literary meaning with Oedipal quest for self-discovery.As mentioned before, a major el meet within the reader and Oedipal quest is paranoia. Paranoia pushes the reader through the text. We are eer led towards a conclusion, but then deceived. Our inability to decipher symbols relates to our inability to increase the communicative entropy of our world. Nevertheless, The C rying of Lot 49 succeeds in actively involving the reader within the text, a hallmark of postmodern literature. -Looked on bathroom wall again to find symbol. Asks playwright about bones. * more than she looked into things more she saw in it (53/54)