Roseman is Oedipa and Mucho’s lawyer, whom Oedipa briefly consults in the novel’s introductory chapter for advice about Pierce Inverarity’s will. Roseman is miserable because he obsessively compares himself to the television lawyer Perry Mason, and he flirts shamelessly with Oedipa until she points out that he is manipulating her in order to enjoy his own fantasy but does not actually mean any of the things he tells her.
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Roseman Character Timeline in The Crying of Lot 49
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Chapter 1
...Inverarity, tells Oedipa that he cannot help and that she should check with their lawyer, Roseman.
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Oedipa goes to visit Roseman the next morning, but first she spends half an hour doing her eye makeup. She...
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Like Oedipa, Roseman was awake all night: he was ruminating about Perry Mason, the TV lawyer whom he...
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