James Thurber and Thomas Wolfe
James Thurber and Thomas Wolfe were both great American authors. They both wrote during the Modern period of writing. Though their writings are very different many of them contain the same elements. The modernist movement called for bold experimentation and a wholesale rejection of traditional themes and styles. Thurber and Wolfe’s writings are far from the old, traditional styles of writing. Their writing shows the switch from the previous period of Realism to the new period of the Moderns. James Thurber and Thomas Wolfe lived different lives, in different places, and wrote in different styles but they still share some similarities. The Moderns really began after World War one or the Great War. This changed the American voice in fiction. Idealism turned into cynicism and America lost its innocence. The Stock Market Crash caused the Great Depression and that caused a more depressing kind of writing. This style calls for bold experimentation, and a sweeping rejection of all traditional themes. American soon became known as a beautiful, bountiful, and rewarding land. The independent person that relies only on himself was shown to have the ultimate triumph. The new writers were skeptical of the New England Puritan
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