The hair spray can has no aim when it is flying
around just as Oedipa has no goal when she is traveling around. The can is flying around bouncing off of
whatever it hits and is out of control.
Oedipa is traveling around San Narciso just going where ever people take
her and really has no destination in mind.
Both Oedipa and the can are traveling aimlessly around their respected
areas.
The can is flying around the room because
Oedipa knocked the can over and the top broke off. The can then started flying around the
room, "The can hit the floor,
something broke, and with a great outsurge of pressure the stuff commenced
atomizing, propelling the can swiftly about the bathroom"(36). The can is fueled by something in side of
it. The stuff inside the can sends it
around the bathroom even though it does not know where it is going.
Oedipa starts traveling around San Narciso but
she does not have a destination. She is
being fueled by something inside her just as the can was. The stuff inside Oedipa that sends her around
San Narciso is her curiosity. Her
curiosity in the meaning of the Tristero and the meaning of W.A.S.T.E. are what
sends her around San Narciso. She does
not know where she is going but she will go until her fuel runs out just like the can.
Oedipa travels around the city of San Narciso
without a real destination. She will get
temporary destinations but no final destination. The can does not have any real destination
either. The can will get a temporary
destination just as Oedipa will. The
can's temporary destination changes each time it hits its destination (e.g., a
wall or other object). Oedipa's temporary destination changes when
she reaches it (e.g., a store or other location) just like the can's does.
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