Young P's conservative (Cc atholic) view of Love in the Western World

[Dave Williams]

Slade suggests that P's parody of Adams and Stencil questions the Romantic view of the world. But in 

" Love and the Western World of Pynchon's "V." " Lila V. Graves argues 
that young P's views are rather like De Rougemont's; neither sees and end to Western Culture; both argue that Western Cult can be saved by asserting two cardinal human values. Fidelity and the Formal expression in art of destructive human passion. 


Maybe this is what turns readers off to V.?