ery. His mixture of fiction with history further confuses the reader with the Thurn and Taxis system and the Peter Piguid Society one is drawn into a world where he/she is reliant upon Oedipa to decipher the clues. Oedipa and the reader are drawn into a constant fear of paranoia. As she tackles the question of her sanity, she is continuosly bomnarded by the fear of paranoia. Because the details being fed to Oedipa/ reader are closely contriolled by the author, one is hurled into a world where fiction and reality are continuosly confused and paranoia surrounds the action taking place and the strange characters she encounetrs. She is led to find meaning in symbols that don't necessarily contain any meaning. Eventually, Oedipa sees the sign of the Trysero everywhere she goes. "In the lapel of which she spied, wrought exquisitely in some pale, glimmering alloy, not another cerise badge, but a pin in the shape of the Trystero post horn. Mute and everything (p.111). Because we see this fictional world through her eyes, we wonder whether this vast conspiracy is real. Pierce Inverearity is close to the author in that he is the master of the fictional domain. He is the creator of the complicated web that Oedipa has become tangled in and as she questions what his motive were in involving her in the will, the reader also sees the ganes the author has played to drwa one into the system The most inventive method that Pynchon uses for involving the reader in the novel in The Crying of Lot 49 is the mock-Jacobean drama The Courier's Tragedy. In a way our experience oif the novel parallel's Oedipa's experience of the play. The details of the play are not only closely related to the events of the novel, but the conspiratorial air that surrounds its line and director, Randolph Driblette, consume the reader with the obsession that Oedipa feels for the ghsrtjhuser. Driblette's words warn Oedipa and the reader of the fact that they've been drawn...
