As I continue reading through chapter three of the book, I find myself with another funny name in the book, Mike Fallopian. Yet another funny name in the book, but why does Pynchon use so many funny names? He hasn’t given us a clue about this in the book up to this point.
I don’t see why she puts so much interest in this, but without a doubt it is important for her. She even writes it down to investigate it. The more into the book, the more I feel like Oedipa is acting as a detective.
In class, we discussed how The Crying Of lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon might be a satire on the 1950’s women. The first thing that makes us notice this is when the author states that “came home from a Tupperware party” (Page 1). This is a type of party that women used to attend to in the mid XX century. As I continue reading the book, I start noticing the story getting boring in my opinion maybe I might not be getting what the author is saying. As Oedipa has an affair with the lawyer, Metzger, as the author says, “With a cry Oedipa rushed to him, fell on him, began kissing him to wake him up” (Page 29). I feel like watching a Colombian soap opera. All of them include at some point someone cheating and have dozens of scenes identical to this one with Metzger and Oedipa. I am sure that there is satire behind this, and will try to identify it.
The first thing one might notice in reading The Crying Of Lot 49 by Thomas Pincher was probably the names of his characters. I don’t really know is there is a reason or a connection he wants us to make but it’s very early in the book and I will have to see that later. The first name that caught my attention was the name of the character who appears to be the main one, Oedipa Mass. The first time you read this name, you will probably think about the famous ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles, Oedipus Rex. Maybe this might be something further on in the book. The next character name that caught my attention in the first chapter was her husband’s name, Wendell Maas, but this is not the interesting part, it is how they call him, Mucho Maas. As soon as I read this I found myself laughing out loud at the book. The reason of this was because what this means in Spanish is “Much More”. So this is another name that I will try to find a reason for because someone called “Much More” is pretty uncommon. The last name that also made me laugh out loud was the name of her doctor, Dr. Hilarious. I don’t remember laughing at a book in al long time but Pynchon’s characters are exactly that, hilarious.
