Ultimately, Margie in simple terms doesn't get it, as she verbalizes at the end of the movie, "So, I guess that was Mrs. Lundegaard on the floor in there. And I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper. And those three people in Brainerd. And for what? For a little bit of money. There's more to life than a little money, ya know. Don't you know that? And here you are; and it's a beautiful day. Well, I just don't understand it.".
Marge's swift and insightful breakdown of the first crime scene shows that she is not just a skilled police chief, when she questions Jerry and Shep, she eloquently displays what a brilliant detective and an efficient and aware interrogator she is. Also, with no audacity and minimal fighting and bloodshed, she hunts and takes into custody the sadistic criminal Gaear. She symbolizes principle the most in her altercation with the killer as he is shredding his most recent casualty into a wood chipper, when he can't take notice of her over the blare of the wood chipper, she gestures to the badge on her hat. The character that represents thoughtlessness and violence, then darts out onto the lake in fear running away the principle in the character of the pregnant police chief. The ideology of principle is not a set of policies, but a way of life arranged by God that people must abide by, or catastrophe will follow, for the population.
The two kidnappers characterize violence and thoughtlessness almost flawlessly. The psychopathic serial killer Gaear Grimsrud, is the ideal embodiment of sheer wickedness, a Diabolic-figure. With next to no character, he is ravenously hungry and deeply purposeless, embodied by his physical appetite for tasteless, satisfying food contrasted this with the hale and hearty appetite of the pregnant Marge, stuffed with soul, feasting with her devoted and caring husband on Chinese food, hamburgers, and eggs.
Although Carl Showalter is not illustrated as wicked as his accomplice, sort of like an evil spirit of Gaear, he is slightly more human than his friend.
The universe is full of mysteries. Knowledge and understanding of the universe is often attempted and seldom achieved. In The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon argues that an attempt to understand the unknown is impossible. The author uses several themes in his novel in order to conclude his point. O...