CoL49 Group Read

[J K Van Nort]

While Oedipa has some alignment with Rex, especially the detective/problem and riddle solver, I think that the Rapunzel tale has far more analogies. The tower and her confinement and escape, the patriarchal rescue and happy ending of the tale contrast with her suburban housewife marriage. In Rapunzel, the girl unwittingly discloses her relationship to the witch. The witch abandons her in a wilderness, Kinneret-Among-the-Pines? Rapunzel’s tears heal the prince’s blinded eyes, while Oed’s tears are hidden by her bubble glasses, which she imagines will capture the tears and provide her with a sad vision that refracts the world through those tears. Her prince/Pierce has returned via his will, but she cannot heal him and won’t live happily ever after in the patriarchal world.
In solidarity,
James

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