The Crying’s sole protagonist, Oedipa, is loaded by a chaotic information overflow that yields anarchy and uncertainty. She also cannot find convincing answers to the mysterious yet realistic questions; hence, she gets alienated in the hyperreal puzzling world of uncorrelated information. Oedipa becomes mentally disoriented and indifferent as a
result of the dominant hyperreality in the postmodern world. To trace this novel’s confusing symbols and allusions, which trap Oedipa as the most significant hyperreal source of this paper argument. There is a significant themato- the intertextual analogy between Baudrillard’s America, with the notions of sign-based hyperreality and postmodernism and Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, for the latter portrays a modern society full of codified signs and simulation. This paper aims to explore the suggestive analogies between Pynchon’s The Crying and Baudrillard America. The researcher only focuses on the kinds of images and allusions of entropy from modern to postmodern times. This study used the qualitative research method to trace and explain the various analogies and commonalities between the two authors and their postmodernist texts. The Cryings Oedipa is trapped by cultural information of puzzling symbols and images. Oedipa strives against the postmodern symbol-filled society to find the truth and satisfy her interpretive information and knowledge needs. In this light, there is a bad need for further papers in the future to shed more light on the various issues mentioned in the current paper in the light of the emergents of multilayered chaos and alienation in the postmodern world.

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