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This 6 page paper considers the factors that resulted in the so-called Lost Generation. Using Hemmingway's “Farewell to Arms” this paper illustrates the deep preoccupation with death and overall disillusionment that characterized the time.
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in France referring to his inept mechanics as "une g?n?ration perdue" (Moreira 28). Stein borrowed the phrase to refer to a time in world history that unfolded after World War
I when numerous prominent American authors relocated to Europe. Ernest Hemmingway, one of the Lost Generation, used the phrase in "The Sun Also Rises", his first novel from Paris
(Brady 9). The writers and artists of the Lost Generation had many reasons to be disillusioned with the outcome of the war. Our men had fought valiantly for
principles that they deeply believed in. Their reward had often been death or disfigurement. At the very best, these men were often gravely psychologically impacted by the horrors
of the war to end all wars. America itself had evolved during the war as well. The Lost Generation perceived the changes that had occurred as negative.
They felt that their country was focused solely on industrialization and business. Europe, in contrast, offered more of a cosmopolitan environment with people from a diversity of cultures and
lifeways. In the minds of the Lost Generation, that environment was more conducive to artistic expression. Many great stories sprang forth from the Lost Generation. Consider, for example,
Ernest Hemmingways "A Farewell to Arms". "A Farewell to Arms" is a story of the atrocities of war and the pain associated with those atrocities. The novel is
even deeper than that, however. In it Hemmingway broaches some of the most emotional subjects known to mankind, love and death. Hemmingway, after all, had served in the
war. Working as an ambulance driver he probably saw more death and injury than many others that fought there. In some ways he became preoccupied with death
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