Runaway women in Pynchon

[Mark Kohut]

Troth---Lew's wife
Erlys----Merle's wife
          ----Merle keeps sayin Dally's gonna bolt when old enough
Edwarda Beef (w maid, Vaseline)----Scarsdale Vibe's wife (she half-leaves)
Lake  ----Webb's first daughter
more to come in AtD but also
 
Frenesy
Doc's first love

pretty thematic, I'd say. Unhappy women wanting out---and taking their ways. 
The feminine (whatever that is, but is it in The White Goddess' wake/) will out in
the patriarchal, authoritarian culture (AtD anyway)? 

And thematic re the men: all unhappy at their loss....their life's love lost........
Men more 'romantic'---in psychological sense--than women, yes? 
goes back to ole Benny, yes?........(was just reminded of how Webb lost
his first love too)
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