Pynchon - Blog 10

Aniruddha Joshi
English 1102
Dr Reynolds
April 23, 2009

Pynchon – Blog 10

Going further into Pynchon’s “Against the Day,” I feel more and more confused as I progress. The book has quite a lot of characters and subplots that it is quite hard to keep track of things and also is somewhat annoying. I am left to assume that the book will account for all these somewhat separate plots as the book concludes. The characters themselves are not well developed and this was in some sense a big turnoff for me and I hope that the rest of the book is more rewarding in that respect. The book is quite heavy in my opinion and it does not settle down into a strong single plot. I wonder if the author intended to structure the book with so many characters and plots or if this is a result of Pynchon’s natural style.