VLVL Frenesi/"happy ending"?

[jbor]

>> The young girl
>> on the highway, who doesn't know him from Adam, is impartial. (I don't
>> think she or her parents are Nazis, by the way. Is there any evidence in
>> the text to support this interpretation?)

umberto
> Mightn't her sentence be just ironic? Sometime you tell people you
> like "you're crazy" or things like that.

Definitely. The context of her remark is Zoyd yelling out aggressively that
the dress he is wearing is "a Calvin Klein original", which it isn't, and
her quick retort perhaps signifies her sarcastic attitude towards Zoyd's
"crimes" against fashion. But along with other comments and incidents in
this early section it does prefigure what will happen to Zoyd later on, and
it alerts the reader to the fact there are different reactions to Zoyd's
choice to dress up in female clothes (in order to claim welfare benefits
from the government over a 15 year period).

The fact that the girl "screamed" back at him implies to me that it isn't a
friendly remark (the difference is in the tenor of the exchange: Luciana and
Yossarian know each other, whereas Zoyd and the girl are complete
strangers). 

best

> (I remember Luciana keeps
> telling Yossarian that he's crazy in Heller's Catch-22, a novel
> Pynchon knows quite well and quoted quite often.) "You ought to be
> locked up" is not far from sentences I've often told dear friends of
> mine.