Winthrop Tremaine

[Dave Monroe]

>From John Dugdale, Thomas Pynchon: Allusive Parables
of Power (New York: St. Martin's/London: Macmillan,
1990), Ch. 3, "The Crying of Lot 49," pp. 124-85 ...

"The introduction of the name of Winthrop ... and
occasional details recalling The Scarlet Letter lead
one additionally to recognise a resemblance to
Hawthorne's 'sainted Anne Hutchinson'.  Surrounded, at
the auction, by men in black suits with cruel faces,
in a room which may be a courthouse ... Oedipa recalls
Hutchinson on trial before Winthrop and his fellow
ministers, convinced that she had received 'an
immediate revelation' from the spirit ... and that
here judges had plotted against her.  The Oedipa of
the final chapter also recalls Hutchinson's
banishment, and her alleged monstrous pregnancy ...."
(p. 171)

The ellipses mark only gaps where I eliminated what I
believe to be pagination for the U.K. Picador ed.
(1979).  Would have substituted the Harper ed.
pagination, but I gotta run, so ...

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