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1920s- The Lost Generation
- nomadicity
People flocked to cities and to Europe
- self-indulgence
Generation skeptical of authority
The experience of World War I changed the world forever. With its outburst came the development of new technology and fighting methods that intensified the effects of war, leading to casualties of around 37 million. This had a long-lasting effect on the following generations, who witnessed and felt the profound impact of the terrifying war. No longer wishing to adhere to classical principles of humanity, they sought to rebel against the beliefs of their elders. This post-war generation thus became known as "The Lost Generation".
- aimlessness
- self-sufficiency
American writers felt lost
Elders no longer moral guideposts
- disillusionment
- moral loss
Governments ignoring their heroes
- independence
People affected by horrors of the battle
Increased competition for jobs
It is believed that while in France, Gertrude Stein, an American poet and art collector, heard her auto-mechanic referring to his young workers as "une generation perdue", due to their poor repair skills. In a conversation with Hemingway, she uses this phrase to describe the people of the 1920s who rejected the values of the post-war American world. Hemingway made the phrase popular by using it as an epigraph for his first novel, "The Sun Also Rises". Thanks to the popularity of his novel, the term has endured and is now associated with a lifestyle as well as with a famous group of writers from the 1920s.