VLVL Frenesi/"happy ending"?

[jbor]

> but isn't it a bit out of character for
> Frenesi the Betrayer, the biggest cop lover in the
> novel, to be fronting these thoughts for Pynchon?
> 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.
> 
> http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/chapter15.htm

The idea that "Frenesi is fronting these thoughts for Pynchon" holus bolus
is a pretty simplistic one. They are no more (and no less) "Pynchon's
thoughts" than are Brock Vond's insights into the psychology of the student
radicals, his "genius" (269).

And not only is the notion that the novel has a "big Happy Ending"
questionable at best, where's there any evidence of Frenesi's
"rehabilitation"? Prairie's reunion with her mother is a let-down for the
girl (375.6-18), and it seems to be the spur for her escape, "totally
familied out" (374), into the "solitude" (375) of the forest, yearning for
Brock Vond to come back and whisk her away from it all (384).

It's noteworthy that Prairie tells Zoyd that meeting Frenesi was "like
meeting a celebrity" (375) which, as well as referring to the mediated
relationship she has had with her -- to Prairie, Frenesi "had been a girl in
a movie" (367) -- intimates that maybe Frenesi will end up doing Hector's
big anti-drug movie after all. Symbolically-speaking, Hector and Frenesi's
dance (350) seems to have sealed a contract of some sort.

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