The Crying Of Lot 49 - Chapter 6

Chapter six really begins to end the novel by tying loose ends together and making the reader think and contemplate the real actions and meanings throughout the entire novel. First she finds that Metzger has run off and eloped with Serge's chick. She tries to hold back her feelings but everyone knows that she is sad and disappointed. Just as easily as he cam he up and left leaving her with the will and someone else. The she goes to visit Professor Emory Bortz, where she really comes in contact with her life by having no children and family to show for her life. The Professor and Oedipa talk about the play the Courier's Tragedy and how lines were changed when she saw the play and how it was originally pornographic but changed. She also learns that Brody dies and comes the realization that all her men are leaving her by saying "They are stripping away, one by one, my men." The reader knows the men were only sexually attracted to her but she wanted more and no she is hurt. Oedipa finally knows the true historical background of the Tristero and the true meaning of W.A.S.T.E. Fallopian opens the idea that Oedipa may have been being set up this entire time, that Inverarity planned for all this to happen. But she is in denial at first but then comes to the realization that it might be true. So she goes crazy and loses her mind. She stricken with physical and mental pain. She really loses it all. She had lost everything on a whirlwind ride that was set up. The Crying of Lot 49 was a very interesting book. It was hard to understand most of the time due to the language and stream of consciousness. It is very ironic and makes you think about actions of people.