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A 5 page paper which examines how these novels are examples of modern literature, considering its characters, events and symbols. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Literature by Tracy Gregory, November 2001 -- properly! Modern literature gained popularity during the 1920s, and
can be interpreted as a reaction to the brutalities of World War I. After "the Great War," the world was never quite the same, and survivors were left to
make sense of it all, while struggling to pick up the pieces of their broken lives. These were the people author Gertrude Stein dubbed "the lost generation." Modernism
was an attempt to "go where literature had never gone before;" in other words, it sought to reflect the complexities of modern world through the use of innovative use of
narration and controversial social themes. Modern literature was not merely read; it was experienced by the reader. The subject matter may have been realistic, but the writing was
complicated and required the reader to become intimately involved with the characters and the action in order to gain greater understanding of the work as a whole. The novels
of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald best characterize the modern literary era, and the characterizations, events and symbols depicted in Hemingways first novel, The Sun Also Rises (1926) and
in Fitzgeralds 1934 novel, Tender is the Night remain stellar examples of the realist genre that replaced nineteenth century romantic idealism forever. The Sun Also Rises is the story of
a group of American expatriates who relocated to Europe after the war in an effort to attach some meaning to their lives. These characters represent the alienation and ambivalence
of the modern generation, and consist of male protagonist Jake Barnes, a cynical businessman who had been rendered impotent as the result of a war injury; and female protagonist Lady
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