COL49 - Chap 2: sex, death and endings, happy or not
Robin Landseadel
robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Wed May 13 13:50:44 CDT 2009
On May 13, 2009, at 11:28 AM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
> Could the opening tupperware party be the real end? Oedipa
> retreating to her easy, cloistered life.
Not unless the film runs backwards. If nothing else the timeframe of
CoL49 is the first moment after mourning President Kennedy, the real
beginning of "The Sixties." Tupperware parties with fondue represented
the fifties archetype of Suzie Homemaker. Freaky scenes in Echo Courts
frankly sound about as sixties as it ever gets. And by the end of the
book Oedipa—like Edie Sedgwick— has no direction home. Arrows point
everywhere but back home.
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