The name Mucho Maas is definitely a name I would have never chosen for a character. Even though it is a strange name it does make some sense in some way. Mucho Maas is a very normal person without anything extraordinary. His name in Spanish means way more. After reading this I had quickly a question that needed to be answered: way more than what? In my opinion his name should be more Mucho Menos because he really doesn't have anything that goes above a normal person. According to Pynchon "It was an ordinary Muchoesque envelope, swiped from the station, ordinary airmail stamp" (pg.33). This letter showed the simplicity of Mucho and the fact that he did not go into lots of extra work into making a letter. We have already seen a letter sent to Oedipa before that was Inverarity's letter. Mucho's letter compared to him could have been said to be dull and lacking of meaning. In Inverarity's letter was his will. It is much more important a will than an ordinary letter but I think Pynchon did this such drastic importance of the letters to show the importance of the characters. He wanted to show to us how Mucho is more of a secondary character that until now has not done any major thing. In the other hand he wants to exalt Inverarity and show that without his will the story will be very different because the story is about Inverarity's will. There was also a part where the theme of a family member wanting to marry another person of its family. In the book there is a quotation that says "Evil Duke Angelo, […] by marrying off the only royal female available, his sister Francesca" (pg.50). Since I had started to read this book I thought that the name Oedipa had to do something with the real meaning of the book. Until now I had tried to see in what moments of this book the story of Oedipus could have been reflected but couldn't see any. I almost got to think that the name Oedipa was satire because she never talked about her family or had any way of showing that she had any relationship with a family member. Oedipus was now shown in the small fragment of the play when the two brothers are going to marry. This play may not be the most important thing in the book but, it was a way Oedipa had to find out more about Inverarity and the bones he bought.
Some weeks ago I was flipping through channels when I saw a documentary that related to this story. I saw a documentary in Discovery Channel called The Ten Commandments Of Mafia. There is a part in this book that talks a lot of what I learned from this documentary. Di Presso says "Who's Tony Jaguar. Very big in Cosa Nostra" (pg.43) and I immediately recognized that name. In the documentary they explained that Cosa Nostra was the way that mafia members called the mafia. In this documentary that I saw they explained that the mafia appeared in the US when mostly big Italian families immigrated. At the beginning the mafia gangs were only those that were family members, after they started incorporating anyone that seemed faithful and worthy to include. I think that Pynchon included the mafia in this book to show that maybe Inverarity's business were not all legal and that there were some that could have been done with the mafia. Also it could have been foreshadowing that he may be part of the mafia.
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