Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Summary of The Crying Of Lot 49 The latent paranoia of Herbert Stencil, his belief that all of history is involved in a plot against him, becomes overt in Pynchon's second novel, The Crying of Lot 49 (1966). The heroine of the novel, Oedipa Maas, is named executor of the will of her former lover, the millionaire industrialist Pierce Inverarity, and sets out to discover the extent of his holdings. In the process, she discovers not only that Pierce seems to represent the power structure of America (which corresponds to the They System of Gravity's Rainbow), but also that...
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