Chapter 2 starts out with Oedipa leaving her home in Kinneret, California and headed to San Narciso where Pierce had lived and also were his law firm was based. Once Oedipa arrives into town she checks into a hotel. Here shee meets a young guy named Miles. Oedipa describes him in the following way, "The manager, a drop out named Miles, maybe 16 with a beatle haircut and a lapelless, cuffless, one button monhair suit". A monhair suit is made out of silk like fabric or yarn from the hair of an Angora goat. Oedipa notices Miles' singing and he tells her that he is in a band called the Paranoids. I think Mile's is sort of paranoid as he thinks Oedipa wants to sleep with him in exchange for Oedipa taking a demo of Miles' band to her husband so he can play it on the radio. Paranoid is a thought process that is believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear.
Later on that night a lawyer named Metzger shows up to help Oedipa execute the will. It is quickly learned that Pierce's estate was very complicated as he had his hands dipped into everything while he was alive. As the night goes on Metzger and Oedipa begin drinking heavily and Metzger starts to tell Oedipa of his past. Metzger was a child actor and it just so happened that while they were talking and drinking one of the movies he was in as a child came on the tv they were watching. As the night goes on the two get drunker and drunker and start to play a gamed called strip botticelli. I think this is a game Metzger just made up in order to get what he wanted to in this game Oedipa would have to remove one article of clothing for every question Metzger answers. She agrees to play the game but before they start she goes to the bathroom and puts on all the clothes that she brought with her, she could hardly walk she had so many clothes on. When she goes to walk out of the bathroom she falls down and knocks over a can of hair spray breaking it causing the can to fly all over the place. The can ended up breaking the mirror in the bathroom and an few other things. While the can was flying around Metzger ended up laying on top of Oedipa to protect her. At this point in the story Miles and his band busted into the room ready to party. Oedipa sent them back out so they set up and started playing music in the hallway. As the night goes on the two continue to drink and watch the movie on tv and eventaully end up having sex.
At this point in the story i'm not to sure what to think about Oedipa. In the very beginning of the story we learned that Oedipa felt trapped and she described it as her being like Rapunzel trapped up high in a tower somewhere, just waiting for someone to ask her to let her hair down. Peirce had tried to climb up her hair but ended up falling down as her hair turned out to be only a wig. At this point in time I feel like Oedipa is a wild woman who is somewhat messed up in the head. She ends up cheating on her husband with Metzger who was the lawyer sent to help her settle the estate of her diseased ex boyfriend, she also goes to a head doctor name Dr. Hillarious. At this point in time I think that its possible that Pierce's death may have messed with her head in some way but i'm not real sure, gonna have to keep reading and find out whats going to happen.
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