1. The Crying Of Lot 49
... 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 ΒΌ 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...
- Word Count: 1566
- Approx Pages: 6
- Grade Level: High School