Blog Post #7

Blog Post #7
Dana Watson

As I’ve been reading through the Crying of Lot 49, I’ve been trying to solve the “mystery” along with Oedipa, in which the book is centered around. But, however, I’m finding it really difficult to find a connection between everything we’ve found out and how it all fits together. In the book, it seems that in every chapter, Oedipa finds out two or three new facts, clues, or leads to work with, but when that happens, I get even more confused. Also, the whole book is just hard to take as a serious mysery novel, mainly because leads that Oedipa discovers never become evident so easily. For example, in chapter four, when Oedipa “got lost” during the stockholder’s meeting and runs into Stanley Koteks and receives a bunch of information; that’s hard to believe. But, I guess it comes with this type of novel. Overall, I’m just confused with the direction of the book. I’ve re-read portions and usually read parts of each chapter multiple times, but there are still a lot of holes for me. I may be reading through the book in a lighter way than I should; maybe I should dig deeper into the text and get the real meaning or message. As of right now, though, you could say that I’m pretty lost.