Characterisation of the protagonists
The Fourth floor:
Callisto lives in a dream world of life in his own artificial imaginations, isolated, intellectual, component of the Lost Generation, obsessed with the concept of apocalyptic heat-death of the universe.
Aubade, another character is part French and part Annamese which unifies worlds.
Pynchon overwrought hypotaxis in this story and the motive behind introducing the bird is that dying bird signifies the destruction of the order of his own self-created heaven.
The Third Floor:
In the third floor we meet Meatball, a “take life as it comes man”, earthy, open to newcomers at the party, symbolising the Beat Culture. In this Pynchon uses simple parataxis and the waste motive symbolizes the entropic decline of the modern consumerist society.
The second Floor:
In the second floor we see Saul and Miriam arguing about communication theory, biblical references etc. Saul cannot harmonize communication theory and marital practice. In assaulting the middle part of the phrase “I love you” as ambiguity and ‘noise that outweigh the signal’ he overlooks that a wholly clear I or YOU circuit with no disparity of data on the two ends would ultimately ignore the need of communication altogether. In short we can see that a little entropy at times is not so bad.
Entropy suits to that set of malicious rules of Pynchon’s psychological disorder, which is merely ghastly, generating characters in the final stages of entropy, passively and disorderly acting through, not upon, the wide and atrocious systems in which they dwell upon. Starting with admitting the importance of Pynchon’s characters who address the thematic thread of entropy where as a quantitative measure of the amount of heat energy is unavailable to work, we note Pynchon’s best graphic example of this disorderly trend of systems to ultimately run down on energy unwrapped by his characters, Callisto and his mistress, who together enterprise to keep a dying bird alive through heat energy. Callisto hugs this dying bird continuously for 3 days until he could no longer provide any aid to the bird. Ultimately, the random remnant of body entropy or heat is lost and the character’s anxiety transforms into despair. As we go further Cowart says, "He has been trying to heal a sick bird by sharing with it the warmth of his own body, and when it dies he is forced to believe that the heat-transfer is not possible anymore”. Similarly, Redford and Hays disclose the same about Callisto dwelling on the third floor. The needed entropy was in fact not transferred, and Callisto complains helplessly about all things. The theme of entropy, worked it to its conclusion on the third floor. Finally, the energy was lost; and the character’s anxiety ended in complaints, loses and hopelessness in entropy.
