The passage I chose this week has to do with the communication and relationship issues between Oedipa and Mucho. The quote can be found in the second paragraph on page 32 describing Mucho’s letter, “The letter itself had nothing much to say, had come in response to one of her dutiful, more or less rambling, twice-a-week notes to him, in which she was not confessing to her scene with Metzger because Mucho, she felt, somehow, would know.”
Oedipa and Mucho’s relationship is very strange to me. They are a married couple but their communication skills are terrible. It seems like the reason they write these pointless letters is because they feel like they have to do it. They don’t have a personal incentive to write to one another. Obviously the relationship between Oedipa and Mucho isn’t a strong one because the content of their letters is referred to as “rambling,” not actually anything of importance. This is a huge theme running throughout the book, the issue of communication. Oedipa seems to have the most trouble with it. She’s looking for things to communicate with her, but they aren’t coming through. What’s ironic is the fact that Oedipa is expecting things to communicate openly with her, but she herself is a terrible communicator. She doesn’t reveal any of her travels with her husband and also keeps secrets from him, such as the affair with Metzger. I’m not exactly sure where The Crying of Lot 49 is going with the whole communication “issue.” Perhaps Oedipa will work through these issues as she digs further into the execution of Pierce’s will. As for now it looks like her relationship with Mucho is on the decline and will continue down that path.
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