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In eight pages this paper examines how Ernest Hemingway’s literature can be collectively described as a ‘modernist portrait.’ Eight sources are listed in the bibliography.
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family security, and freedom from oppression. To the world, Uncle Sam sold the American Dream to the world, but by the First World War, any dreams were transformed into
nightmares on the battlegrounds throughout Europe. World War I had been described as the war to end all wars, and yet as U.S. President Woodrow Wilson solemnly observed, its
conclusion was a hollow triumph because there was a negotiated "peace without victory" (Dockrill 11). Back home, soldiers returned to a very different America. Women had ventured out
of their domestic sphere to keep the economy going and liked being liberated from their gender constraints. They were in no hurry to return to cooking, cleaning, and nurturing.
These returning warriors were also nursing scars, both physical and emotional, that would linger long after the Treaty of Versailles brought an official end to the war. For
several young American writers, the American Dream was a sham and disillusionment over a purposeless war cut deep. During the 1920s, many of these men and women of letters,
including Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway became expatriates and sought escape through alcohol and the free-spirited improvisation of jazz music. It was Fitzgerald who is credited
with coining the phrase Jazz Age to describe the 1920s. During this time, the spectre of war and death produced dark literary works that were in sharp contrast to
the light and optimistic Romantic writings of the previous century. Modernist artists were sketching bleak portraits of the American Dream that defined convention through plot, characterization, and language that
mirrored infectious African American jazz rhythms to which carefree aristocrats were drinking and dancing. In F. Scott Fitzgeralds modernist novel The Great Gatsby, his protagonist cultivated a wealthy persona he
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