1. Oedipa in The Crying of Lot 59
... a matter of Bortz's response, or Grace's, but of the Tristero's." Pynchon's detailed description of Oedipa proves that she is able and willing to abandon a "normal person's" common personality trait of empathy to later inhabit multiple subject positions. This allows Oedipa to maintain a "master subject position" which allows her to control everyone around her through her composure ... ...
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