... in order to fund it. Also, the public's attitude toward the war was filled with disillusionment and loss of morality. Writers at the time, such as Scott F. Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemmingway, termed this popular public sentiment as the "Lost Generation". The term was used to describe the generation of men and women that came of age either during the ... generation was characterized by lost values, obsolete morals, lost belief in human progress, and a mood of despair and disappointment as a result of their war experiences ("Lost Generation"). Ernest Hemmingway portrays this "Lost Generatio...

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... avoid the responsibilities of exerting effort to find true fulfillment. This was also a very apparent attribute of those who lived in the Lost Generation. Monahan continues on to say that "Hemmingway's objective characters innate instincts, necessary for moving within a rigid social structure, are deadened by World War I, and adapting themselves to the postwar climate only serves to hinder them in the ... ...

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