was very much playing against type.

是与常规背道而驰的
So, Pynchon took a certain kind of risk

品钦着实是冒险
by choosing to make his protagonist a housewife.

选择将主人公塑造为一个家庭主妇
So, the question is, why did he do that?

问题是他为什么这么做
I want to suggest to you that he did that because a woman

我想告诉大家他之所以这么做是因为
is expected to occupy certain conventional roles at this moment,

在那时女人是应该扮演特定的传统角色的
and we see her in one at the very beginning of the novel.

我们在小说一开头就读到了她
She has just come back from a Tupperware party where the hostess

她刚才一个特百惠派对回来派对主人
put too much kirsch in the punch,

在潘趣酒里放了太多樱桃白兰地
so she's a little drunk.

所以她有点醉
So you get this image of her as this stereotypical

所以从这里你能看到一个典型的
'50s housewife going to Tupperware parties.

去特百惠派对的50年代家庭主妇的形像