Category: The Crying of Lot 49

The Crying of Lot 49s story-line is perhaps clearly explained by Randolph Driblette telling Oedipa, You can put together clues, develop a thesis, or several& You could waste your life that way and never touch the truth (56). The novel may seem frustrating to some readers, presumably undergraduate English majors, to search for meaning in…

Few commentaries on the novel are silent on the subject of Oedipas name. Most take for granted that it is significant in a straightforward way: by referring the reader to some extra-textual network of meanings the name appropriates some or all of those meanings for the novel, which thus draws part of its own significance…

…there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth… another mode of meaning behind the obvious, or none. Either Oedipa in the orbiting of a true paranoia or a real Tristero. This quote came from The Crying Of Lot 49 written by Thomas Psychon. Oedipa on her journey of trying to figure out…