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order would ever again be restore, and some even speculated if there had ever been order at all. Maybe it was little more than a carefully contrived illusion.
Postwar literature reflected this mass confusion, as individuals sought introspection to make sense out of a cosmos that now seemed nonsensical. Thus, a new style of writing emerged that
was deeply rooted into the twentieth century, and a new literary theory was born, that of modernism. As literary critics Brian Wilkie and James Hurt noted, "Disillusioned and contemplating
a cosmos and a society either without order or so complexly ordered as to defy understanding, most modern writers have looked within themselves for a principle of order" (1567).
Modern literature became characterized, as Wilkie and Hurt observed, by "its overwhelming preoccupation with the self, the nature of consciousness, and the processes of perception" (1567). It was, essentially,
a movement away from the Impressionism of the previous century, which was emphasized the external universe, and focused more on internal perception - with the view of the world shaped
by the individuals inner consciousness (Wilkie and Hurt 1567). In other words, the modern world exists through a persons perception of it, not the other way around. As
the modern world was a study in contrasts between interior and exterior, so too was modernist literature. There was often the conflict of extremes designed to influence the readers
perception of characters and events, most effectively conveyed through structure, language and symbolism. F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby was and remains a supreme example of modernist literature. The
plot concerned a Midwestern native, Nick Carraway, whose ambition led him East, to New York, and he hoped opportunity. World War I had changed Nick Carraways view of the
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