ATD: unanswered questions

[David Morris]

I agree with your take on this sentence.  Lake doesn't wake up from
her barreness.  She remains alone.  And she is no heroine.

David Morris

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 2:33 AM, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> " Instead she was alone with the sort of recurring dream a long-suffering movie heroine would expect to wake up from to find herself pregnant at last."
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> I think she remains barren to the end - Pynchon certainly meters out plenty of punishment for the other bad guys in AtD, and Lake's childlessness seems to be her punishment for betraying Webb.