![]() ![]() Namely, people select clues, extract significance from them, and weave meanings together into a narrative that forms their sense of reality. However, Pynchon uses Oedipa’s fruitless investigation to show how everyone interprets the world just like Oedipa investigates Tristero and readers analyze literature. Eventually, she realizes that she might have just become a paranoid conspiracy theorist, pursuing a fantasy with no basis in reality. Although Oedipa dedicates all her time to figuring out these clues, she never figures out precisely what Tristero is, if it has anything to do with Inverarity, or if it even exists at all. ![]() As she sorts through the assets that Inverarity has left behind, Oedipa gradually uncovers clues that point her to a centuries-long, anti-government conspiracy of mail carriers called Tristero (or Trystero). ![]() Set in 1960s California, Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 follows the unassuming housewife Oedipa Maas after she discovers that her ex-boyfriend, the wealthy real estate mogul Pierce Inverarity, has recently died under mysterious circumstances and named her as the executor (or “executrix”) of his last will and testament. ![]()
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