The Lost Generation

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pp) The ongoing battle between rural and urban areas was a main reason for “the lost generation” to move overseas and pursue their youthful ideals that they’ve wanted to write about and continue doing without being punished for.
People belonging to “The Lost Generation” such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein had a major influence on American literature. These authors felt that Americans had lost their way, so they went looking for a way to express themselves elsewhere
Ernest Hemingway's first experience to the new lifestyle was when he went to Paris during World War I as an ambulance driver. (A Lost Generation) While in Paris, Hemingway was injured severely which made him get sent back to America. Upon his return he was very unhappy with the way society was and the way people acted.. The American culture he came back to was not the one he had left behind. This made him want to travel back to Europe. In the November of 1921, Hemingway ...

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As soon as he returned to America he was living big off the fame and fortune. A few years passed and Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda went on a vacation to Paris. During this mid 1920‘s trip to Paris, Fitzgerald became a part of the group of outcast American authors which included Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound. This lead to the creation of his next great novel The Great Gatsby. The novel describes the party life and sad death of Jay Gatsby, as portrayed through the eyes of a narrator who does not share the same point of view as the wealthy rich people around him. The narrator learns that Gatsby became rich by breaking the law through bootlegging which ws illegal at ...

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