How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Her climax and Metzger's, when it came, coincided with every light in the place, including the TV tube, suddenly going out, dead, black. (2.106)
What do you make of this comic and overdone sexual encounter? Does sex seem to give Oedipa a sense of release?
Quote #5
"That you wouldn't be easy." (2.110)
Why does Metzger tell Oedipa this? To what extent do you think he is actually interested in her, and to what extent was he simply trying to prove Inverarity wrong? Why does this make Oedipa cry?
Quote #6
Would then proceed at a KCUF record hop to look out again across the gleaming gym floor and there in one of the giant keyholes inscribed for a basketball see, groping her vertical backstroke a little awkward opposite any boy heels might make an inch taller than, a Sharon, Linda or Michele, seventeen and what is known as a hip one, whose velveted eyes ultimately, statistically would meet Mucho's and respond, and the thing would develop then groovy as it could when you found you couldn't get statutory rape really out of the back of your law-abiding head. (3.3)
What do you make of the fact that Oedipa can so graphically imagine how her husband takes advantage of underage girls? Why isn't she bothered by it? Why are all the men in the book obsessed with young girls? What is Pynchon parodying?