The chapter, “Movie Star” from pages 170-178 is eye-opening I think about Lolita Lola’s situation. We already knew that Lolita was exchanging sex for money, much like Joey. However, unlike Joey, who seems to exercise some control of his situation
narrative pairs?
I feel like the section we just read is setting up Joey and Lolita Luna in such a way that they’re…. aligned? They briefly meet, have a power struggle over the German and clearly don’t like each other very much,