Clues Leading To Confusions

As I continued to read this book I found that by this point Oedipa is living a mystery, to which she wants to find the solutions and has been able to find some clues one of these is: “She tailed him all the way back down the littered, shifty, loud length of the Market and over on First Street to the trans bay bus terminal, where he bought a ticket for Oakland. So did Oedipa”. (106) The problem is that this is not like any other kind of mystery movie or book that I have seen or read, in which generally as time passes by and the characters go finding clues, these will help them get closer to solve the mystery. In this book Pynchon does it kind of backwards, I mean he does give clues but instead of these clues leading the character towards the solution of the mystery, it leads her to more doubt and confusion. The night that Oedipa was wondering she was able to put many clues together but she was really confusing her more and more each time.


It is also important to state that by now Oedipa is having some emotional changes in her life. Meaning that she is feeling separated from Mucho, since he became in a victim of LSD. And it was also interesting for me to see how good Oedipa is doing in terms of her psychologically stability, during all this chaos and problems all around.