THE CULTURAL CRITIQUE OF PLASTIC IN GRAVITY'S RAINBOW

[alice malice]

Katherine Gibson Sharpe

This essay attempts to get a grasp on Pynchon's 700-plus page
omnibus, Gravity's Rainbow , by focusing on the development of a single
motif in the novel: plastic. It argues that Pynchon takes 1960s and 1970s
critiques of supply-driven consumer capitalism, of which plastic was a
visible emblem, and makes them more emphatic by placing them into a
fictionalized version of the prewar years and the 1940s.
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