Introduction
The concept of Entropy first appears in Thomas Pynchon’s published work in the short story "Entropy" (1958). Entropy, title of Thomas Pynchon’s earliest published short story from his work “Slow Learner” is a subject of anxiety for both the characters in it and its critics. Entropy according to thermodynamics is the random but irreversible trend of systems to dissipate energy, eventually to get exhausted. In the short story ‘Entropy’ Thomas Pynchon describes three thematic portrayals of entropy with the help of his characters from three households. According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, entropy is split down to be considered as 1) an expressible measure of the quantity of heat energy unavailable for work, 2) a measure of the disorder or randomness when a closed system is considered, and finally, a measure of the loss of data in a conveyed message. In the story Entropy Pynchon’s characters subtly convey the distinct aspects of entropy. Obviously, Pynchon intends the reader to comprehend and distinguish all aspects of these thematic threads. Anyhow, Pynchon does not make it simple for his reader, and so the name of the book, “Slow Learner”. This eventually results in several interpretations of his popularly-known short story Entropy. Callisto, a prophet of approaching destine, says aloud the story of his own discovery, of the end of culture in entropic way: "Nevertheless," continued Callisto, "he found in entropy or the measure of disorganization for a closed system an adequate metaphor to apply to a certain phenomena in his own world. He saw, for example, the younger generation responding to Madison Avenue with the same spleen his own had once reserved for Wall Street: and in American ‘consumerism’ discovered a similar tendency from the least to most probable, from differentiation to sameness, from ordered individuality to a kind of chaos. He found himself, in short, restating Gibbs’ prediction in social terms, and envisioned a heat-death for his culture in which ideas, like heat-energy, would no longer be transferred, since each point in it would ultimately have the same quantity of energy; and intellectual motion would, accordingly, cease." (Slow Learner, 88-89)
