The Crying of Lot 49 | Characters
Oedipa Maas is generally agreed to be Thomas Pynchon's most appealing and human character. Like Herbert Stencil, Oedipa is on a quest, but Stencil's search seems rather crackbrained, and Oedipa's, although more frightening, is also more believable, because at first she thinks that she is merely doing a favor for a friend and gradually becomes drawn into the tarbaby of Inverarity's secrets and the intrigues of the Tristero. The reader identifies with Oedipa more than with the bizarre characters of V. (1963) because, just as Oedipa has to try to figure out the riddle of the...
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