Thomas Pynchon & Entropy

Thomas Pynchon wrote in the 1960's and uses conventions of science and science fiction throughout many of his stories. He was very interested in how science looked in literature form. Pynchon is a very intellectual writer and is a very sarcastic and ironic narrator. In his story, Entropy, Pynchon uses entropy to signify how the world is stuck on its path of sameness. Entropy measures an organization in a closed system, so for him, it means the death of imagination and difference, the change or loss of energy in culture. So Pynchon uses lots of energy in his writing because he fears this loss of energy. Thematically, he uses his interest in science to support the story but doesn't provide endings that have closure. Instead he uses a more flippant tone that is sarcastic, ironic, and hard to grasp sometimes. With this piece, Thomas Pynchon also establishes his post-modernism style partially through the closure-less ending style that he uses and the science fiction.