Crying of Lot

Oedipal runs Into people with multiple concerns and identities, or who are actor sort compulsive role-players. (She herself gets the name tag Arnold Snare stuck on her. ) Later, the men around her start dissolving or disappearing In even more drastic ways. Obviously, this sense of mental variability Is a result of Ponchos method characterization, which gives surface traits rather than psychological depth 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 about 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 unfermented (Departure, fondue, kirsch, mixing drinks transcendence to protagonist on top of conspiracy, Like James bond w ith affair. Remember at the beginning when she talks about all the roles she could play. -gets incapacitated and pretends to be a tourist/stockholder (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 picture/actor to lawyer -Much- car salesman to DC to molester/non-law-abider - fall- (peg 51) -A cross or the Initial T? Could be either in the wells Fargo Incident (60) -Motherly when meeting generation Cohen (64) -Arnold Snare (75) -NAZI salesman- Zap books Buchwald Ramp Dry.Hilarious Oedipal turned into her normal conscious self for a little 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 strident of Lot 49 resemble Oedipal way of making meaning? -I want to see if theres a connection. Im curious at the play before Driblet (page -Why is everybody so Interested in texts? Poncho, via Driblet, speaks to the reader 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 searches. Alphas search Tort ten Orlando version of The Couriers Tragedy, which is obstructed by her inability to separate her play from its author, editor program 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 point 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 constantly led towards a conclusion, but and so deceived. Our inability to decipher symbols relates to our inability to increase the communicative entropy of our world. Nevert heless, The Crying of Lot 49 succeeds in actively involving the reader within the text, a certification of postmodern literature. -Looked on bathroom wall again to find symbol. Asks playwright about bones. *More she looked into things more she saw in it (53/54)