COL49 - Chap 2: sex, death and endings, happy or not

[Robin Landseadel]

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.