Inconclusive

It came to an end, but can we really define it as an end? It was an inconclusive ending, The Tristero mystery ends up with no solution, and the novel ends before the reader could see what happens with the bidder who can help Oedipa unravel the mystery. Pychon does not give us time to wrap it all in. What we know is that Oedipa, trying to solve a mystery losses everything she once loved. She lost her husband to drugs, Dr. Hilarious to craziness, and Driblette committed suicide, and Metzeger ran away with a 15 year old, she says: "they are stripping away one by one, my men"(126). Her life has no meaning now and meaning the mystery does not have it either. She turned her life to "WASTE" trying to find something that may have just been a joke by Inveraty.

Most of the characters end up lost just as her quest. An example of her loss is how Mucho has been influenced by the LSD making him be lost in his own world, he said: "my dreams have changed (118)." and Oedipa is not a part of them anymore. The distortion of the world is the distortion of Oedipa to him.

I think that comes to the end of it, just as she lost her time and lost everything, in a way we lost it to. We tried to find the satirical meaning of the book to what purpose? There will still be things that we don't get and that we will never get.