Ending Feelings

Throughout the book I noticed that most if the jokes that Thomas Pynchon made, and that in order for us to understand them we needed to have a good background and historical knowledge of the United States in the 1960’s. Since the beginning I knew that this was a satirical novel, and at first it was very hard for me to find and to catch all the of the satirical jokes, so instead of being funny and relaxed at the beginning for me this book was tense and I was looking all around for jokes that I could not catch. But then as I got used to them and relaxed I was able to find the satirical part of it.

Now regarding the end of this novel I can say that Oedipa ended up with her life made up a mess and all that she loved is now all gone and destroyed. Starting by saying that she completely lost her husband, Mucho. And that Dr. Hilarious is now gone completely insane, with many other factors Oedipa was completely ruined. And when the novel ends Pynchon is not really putting all the focus in the auction and the Tristeros, but even before that he is focusing on Oedipa and the sense that she lost everything she had for something that could have been a joke in the Inveraty.