This second chapter was much clearer to me; at least it followed a coherent, lineal story of what happened to Oedipa when she left Kinneret. It was very weird when Miles offered to have sex with Oedipa. Who would do that? It seemed vague to me in which time they were in the book since the illegality of alcoholic drinks led me to think it was just after the First World War, but the fact that before in the book World War Two had been mentioned made it more confusing. Maybe, California had remained as one of the dry states or maybe the author had made alcohol illegal in California for some unknown reason. Whichever was the time in that book, it must have been near from war since in many parts of it there were references to war. For example: the Cashiered movie.
It's very strange how most of the US movies and books include the "Three Musketeers" in their stories. Vonnegut for instance, included it in with Weary and his other two friends, Pynchon now includes it in the movie Cashiered in "Baby Igor's Song" (Pg 19), in the movie No Reservations Zoe (Abigail Breslin) made a comparison between them (Zoe, Nick and Kate) to the Three Musketeers, in an other movie The Holiday Amanda Woods (Cameron Diaz) also tells Graham (Jude Law) that when she was little her parents and her used to call themselves the Three Musketeers and further in the movie Olivia and Sophie (Graham‘s daughters) call themselves and their dad the Three Musketeers. It is strange since thinking of it slowly I don’t believe in Colombia there is something like that to which families make reference to.
I thought it was very funny when Oedipa started playing with Metzger and she dressed with all the things she had brought and the hair product fell. It was totally out of context because Metzger was protecting her and she was dressed so ridiculously that it made that scene hilarious. Mainly because of this part this chapter was more entertaining to me. However, there is something I don't understand: Why did the author include those songs? Are they supposed to mean anything? They were really bad.
I dislike Metzger because he got Oedipa drunk so that they could sleep together, maybe if she hadn’t drank so much they wouldn’t have started that relationship. She was married and he didn’t care, he was her lawyer and still he got involved with her. Maybe he was just interested in her because of her recently acquired holdings. Since he had gone over the case, he knew exactly how much she had and maybe was trying to trick her so that he could keep something extra from the Pierce Inventary.
Other part that I thought was funny and ridiculous was when Miles entered the room after the hair product had fallen and he found them on the floor, I felt embarrased for them, specially when the girl asked if they were from london and if that was " 'London thing you're doing?' "(pg 26). I didn't understand the final lines of this chapter, I wonder what he ment about being easy Inverarity wouldn't refer to being easy to sleep with. Did it mean about the case?
It's very strange how most of the US movies and books include the "Three Musketeers" in their stories. Vonnegut for instance, included it in with Weary and his other two friends, Pynchon now includes it in the movie Cashiered in "Baby Igor's Song" (Pg 19), in the movie No Reservations Zoe (Abigail Breslin) made a comparison between them (Zoe, Nick and Kate) to the Three Musketeers, in an other movie The Holiday Amanda Woods (Cameron Diaz) also tells Graham (Jude Law) that when she was little her parents and her used to call themselves the Three Musketeers and further in the movie Olivia and Sophie (Graham‘s daughters) call themselves and their dad the Three Musketeers. It is strange since thinking of it slowly I don’t believe in Colombia there is something like that to which families make reference to.
I thought it was very funny when Oedipa started playing with Metzger and she dressed with all the things she had brought and the hair product fell. It was totally out of context because Metzger was protecting her and she was dressed so ridiculously that it made that scene hilarious. Mainly because of this part this chapter was more entertaining to me. However, there is something I don't understand: Why did the author include those songs? Are they supposed to mean anything? They were really bad.
I dislike Metzger because he got Oedipa drunk so that they could sleep together, maybe if she hadn’t drank so much they wouldn’t have started that relationship. She was married and he didn’t care, he was her lawyer and still he got involved with her. Maybe he was just interested in her because of her recently acquired holdings. Since he had gone over the case, he knew exactly how much she had and maybe was trying to trick her so that he could keep something extra from the Pierce Inventary.
Other part that I thought was funny and ridiculous was when Miles entered the room after the hair product had fallen and he found them on the floor, I felt embarrased for them, specially when the girl asked if they were from london and if that was " 'London thing you're doing?' "(pg 26). I didn't understand the final lines of this chapter, I wonder what he ment about being easy Inverarity wouldn't refer to being easy to sleep with. Did it mean about the case?
Vocabulary:
Rickety: shaky, unstable, insecure and unbalanced.
Zither: a musical stringed instrument with strings stretch over a flat sounding box; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers
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