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__The Crying of Lot 49__ by: Thomas Pynchon

In The Crying of Lot 49, the dialogue is sort of hard to read because it uses big words that I have never even heard of before. The characters talk really formally all the time. I personally do not like this story because it is also very confusing, it is hard to follow and it seems to just go on and on about random things. It will start about how the main character, Oedipas, is doing something and then it will start talking about her husband. To me, it is pretty confusing. Oedipas sort of reminds me of a grandmother. She is very kind and generous, but gets easily confused. She also can't remember things sometimes and when you get older this is what happens, too. So she reminds me of an old grandmother. This story also reminds me of a country song i heard before. In the song, it says about this young man and this old man who meet and just talk and have a few drinks. They talk about life and death and anything like that. Then they never see each other again and the old man dies, and the young man hears about this and gois to his funeral. Then they read the will and the old man had left everything to him. The story reminds me of this song because Oedipas never sees her old friend anymore and then he dies and she is the executor of his will. It is sort of similar to the song about their wills and things like that. I have no idea where the story is taking me or how it will end and I'm interested to read on and find out. If i could be any character in this book, i would be Oedipas's husbad because he seems like a nice man with money and a loving wife. It seems like he has a good life and a good family, so i think i would want to be him. The setting of this story id very important because it mentions about WWII and you need to know what year it is in the story to know when the war happened and how long after it the story takes place. The section when she is driving through her small town makes me think about driving through the smal town of East Berlin with only a few stores and food places. It gives me a visual picture of Oedipas driving through East Berlin. I think their might have been some kind of secret relationship going on between Oedipas and her old friend and thats why he put her as the executor of his will. I think as i keep reading that that will emerge from the story as the secrets start to get solved.