Vineland

[Greg Montalbano]

Davemarc asks:
>I think what I'm getting at, with the end of Vineland, is that the meeting
betwen Prairie and her mother was anti-climactic whereas the presentation of
other events in the book made me think that the meeting would be more
dramatic (or climactic...)  Prairie is one of the few searchers in a TP
novel that actually finds the subject of the search and all we get is "they
talked for a few hours."  Imagine how this meeting would play on a Movie of
the Week.  Now imagine how it would play on a Movie of the Week scripted by
TP.  That's what I was expecting.  How come he didn't give us that?
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Perhaps it's an intentional comment on the true nature of searchers and the
alleged object of/reason for their search (what was Stencil REALLY looking
for?  Was Slothrop actully after the S-Gerat;  was he pursuer, pursued,
both, neither, or something else altogether?  How much control did Oedipa
Maas have over her "search"?)