Thomas Pynchon's the Crying of Essay

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This is best reflected by the main character: Oedipa finds herself in the middle of a plot where the ambiguity of the actions and of the characters (and this is also one of the reasons the writer uses the funny character names, to induce the idea that they may be unreal even in the action of the novel) make her wonder which clues can be believed and what part of the action is true. Her questions are thus passed on to the reader, who will need to decide which part of the plot he can actually build on.

In some ways, it is similar to the shadows that Plato's characters were seeing.
In the cave, they were able to create their own reality, as Oedipa and the reader can, using the forms they saw on the wall. On the other hand, this reality is not necessarily the true reality, but one conceived by each….....

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