Reading:
Thomas Pynchon (1519-20), "Entropy," 1520-31
Raymond Carver (1531-2), "Cathedral," 1532-42
Study Questions:
1. How does the scientific concept of entropy become the controlling metaphor for Pynchon's story?
2. Pynchon and Carver are often thought to have occupied very different places in postwar American writing. What seems different about the two stories? What might seem similar between the two stories?
