VLVL2 (15): Crime Drama

[Ghetta Life]

>From: "umberto rossi" <teacher at inwind.it>>
>
>Dave Monroe si trovò a scrivere:
> > What's happening here, we think, is that Pynchon is
> > starting to set up Frenesi for her rehabilitation as
> > part of the big Happy Ending.
>
>Happy ending? In Vineland? Just because Brock Vond is taken to the land of 
>the dead? What's happy in that ending?

It contains "just deserts," and also comprises the removal of a threat to 
the personal safety of all the "good guys."  The other componenet of VL's 
happy ending is the family reunion.  It's almost like a TV drama.

Ghetta

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