“Oedipa’s development as a character occurs with her learning more about the Trystero. Her moving from role to role (wife, lover, executrix, mother, granddaughter, reader, scholar, Madonna, etc.) also sees her developing new ways of understanding and interpreting her world, until she is isolated by paranoia.”
Taking the above statement into consideration, write one (1) essay that responds to the following prompts. Your essay should contain an argument, an idea that you are trying to prove, and not just summarize the story. You need not quote the texts, but do be as specific as possible about the examples that inform your argument.
1. Evaluate the above statement as a reading of The Crying of Lot 49. Be sure to include discussion, with general reference to the text, about why it is or is not a fair interpretation.