... her love for him as a son is too much to bear, and this is the point where her love crosses the line. Through the course of the story you can see the constant battle between the parents begin to have an adverse effect on the children's upbringing. Though in true heroic manner Mrs. Morel does ... Naturally at the age that Paul was in his life, a mothers control would soon begin to slip away into the hands of her son's wife. Within this story it is not the case at all. The more that Paul tries for freedom the more she becomes controlling. This is evident in the constant disapproval that Mrs...

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... of details. His mixing of the specific history of Thurn and Taxis in his plot serves to overburden the reader with details that appear to have no relation to the story at hand. "From the same plastic folder he now tweezed what looked like an old Ferman stamp, with the figures ¼ in the centre, the word Freimarke at the top, and ... the author and the reader in The Crying of Lot 49. The most obvious one is the name of the protagonist, Oedipa Maas, which elicits the famous Greek riddle solver Oedipus, whose quest to interpret the Delphic prophecies leads to his own downfall. Oedipa Mass a...

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