Editing The Crying of Lot 49 (section)

=== ''Metamorphoses'' ===
[[File:Narcissus_poeticus_Spechtensee_01.JPG|thumb|The flower held by the nymph Echo, ''Narcissus poeticus'']]
Upon arrival in San Narciso, Oedipa stops to check in at the Echo Courts Motel, which sports a painted sheet metal likeness of the nymph [[Echo (mythology)|Echo]] from Ovid's ''[[Metamorphoses]]''.<ref name=":05" /> This figure of Echo is holding a flower, suggested to be ''[[Narcissus poeticus]]'', alike to the flower Narcissus turns into within the myth of [[Echo and Narcissus]].<ref name=":05" /> Additionally, the pool at Echo Courts Motel is described as flat-surfaced, possibly symbolizing the pool in which Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection.<ref name=":05" />

Scholars have drawn parallels between Oedipa and both Narcissus and Echo.<ref name=":05" /> Oedipa is initially suggested to bear a self-proclaimed resemblance to Echo, and it has been suggested the longing for answers regarding Trystero mirrors Echo's desire of Narcissus.<ref name=":05" /> Oedipa also recurringly encounters mirrors throughout the novel, initially failing to find herself in the bathroom mirror at Echo Courts, which could point to the beginning of her paranoia. She additionally recounts a dream in which she is making love to her husband at the motel, only to awake to herself staring back at her through a mirror, an act of self-love by way of a mirror, alluding to the fate of Narcissus within ''[[Metamorphoses]]''.<ref name=":05" />