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By: Thomas Pynchon
 * __The Crying of Lot 49__**

The climax of the novel is when she learns that Pierce Inverarity helped start and owned the whole W.A.S.T.E. system. A minor conflict is that Oedipa did not know what the post horn symbol meant, but it was solved when she figured out that it was part of the W.A.S.T.E. mail system and the symbol of the whole group. The major conflict is that Oedipa didn't know how the system worked and how Pierce Inverarity was related to the whole thing. The major things that helped solve the plot were that Oedipa tried to follow the system and talked to different people, all the people that she talked to would give her more information, and at the end she would put all the information together and figure out what it all meant. There wasn't really a them or message in the story that i caught. The story was kind of really random to me, i thought. Oedipa is the main character and i think she was dynamic because she changed a lot throughout the story. She was round because she had a lot of different characteristics about her such as kind, friendly, and smart. Also, she was a protagonist because Inverarity was the Antagonist and she was jut there trying to figure out everything about Inverarity's life. Mucho was a stock character because he was just Oedipa's husband, a disk jockey. He didn't have any characteristics about him other than that he loved his wife very much. He was also static and a protagonist. Metzger was also a protagonist, but he was also an antagonist because he seduced Oedipa which gave her problems with Mucho. He was a flat character because he didn't have many characteristics about him. He was also static because he didn't change throughout the story. TI do not really think the novel is that believable because i think other people would notice that the post horn symbol is everywhere and they would wonder what it meant, too. I am sure that Oedipa was not the only person to try and figure out what it meat, and along the way they probably told the police and they would have shut the whole system down. I would not recommend this novel to a friend or to any person because the noel was very confusing and very boring to me. It was hard for me to read it because i did not understand it at all.The novel did not meet my expectations because the title made it seem like a good book. I love murder mystery books, and by the cover, it seemed like one, but that is not what it is at all. I liked least about this book when Oedipa had an affair with Metzger. I thought she was being really stupid and i could not believe that she was just trowing Mucho away, she did not even care that it would hurt Mucho. I liked the most the mystery in the story. Oedipa had no idea what the post horn symbol meant, or how any of the clues she was getting were connected, but she eventually put them all together and figured it all out.