lost generation and the jazz

THE LOST GENERATION AND THE JAZZ AGE IN THE WORKS OF HEMINGWAY AND FITZGERALD The post-World War I generation in America, where the war experiences left the country altered forever and the people emotionally barren is usually referred to as the Lost Generation. More specifically, the term is used for a group of American writers who came of age during the war and established their literary reputations in the 1920's. The term embraces Ernest Hemingway, …

…e actions of protagonists, to some extent explain their mentality and lifestyles. This new world, involving struggle with the war trauma, new values, or perhaps the lack of any values explain why Gertrude Stein called the post war people ' a lost generation' and why this remark became popular on the spot. Young Americans felt she was perfectly right, as their generation had to deal with many questions and insecurity brought by the new world.