Lost Generation: Sherwood Anderson

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Lost Generation
The Lost Generation was a time of sadness and confusion. People felt lost and hurt because of what happened in World War 1, so they wrote about it, writers like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T.S. Eliot, John Dos Passos, Ezra Pound, Ford Madox Ford, Kay Boyle, and the writer my paper is about, Sherwood Anderson. Sherwood Anderson’s relates to the Lost Generation very well, he talks about sadness, confusion, and how strange people are. Those ideas he writes about are exactly how the Lost Generation is. The stories that i will be talking about are The Dumb Man, Seeds, War, and The Book of Grotesque. All the stories are similar and have one great similarity, they all talk about how strange people act. Even though these writers sort of write in the same way, they all have different qualities. Sherwood Anderson stood out to me because his stories were very interesting and he was a little bit easier to understand. Sherwood Anderson was one of the more popular writers of this era, His short stories were very thought out and correlated very well with the ideas of the Lost Generation.
In the short story, “The Dumb Man”, Sherwood Anderson explains how their is three men with different personalities are all in the same place. Sherwood explains how he doesn’t understand how that one man can be so happy in such a time and place of sadness, how he could be so happy when nothing around him is happy. I think he is happy because he is alive, he probably looks at the better and brighter things in life instead of being lost and sad all the time like everyone else in the “lost generation”. When the story says that “The three men are waiting--waiting” I think they are waiting for death, They’ve dealt with so much and they j...

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...she was until it was too late. She thought that love would be easy to find, but came to find out it is very difficult and sometimes love is even really love at all, just mixed emotions.
So all these stories are very similar with the “Lost Generation”. These stories are about sadness and confusion, these people in the story are lost and can’t seem to be happy. Sherwood Anderson was a great writer and her stories matched the ideas of the “Lost Generation” perfectly. My favorite story was “The Dumb Man” because there was actually a little happiness. So, my essay has explained how Sherwood Anderson’s ideas correlate with the ideas of the “Lost Generation”

Works Cited

http://www.shortstoryarchive.com/a/dumb_man.html http://www.shortstoryarchive.com/a/seeds.html http://www.shortstoryarchive.com/a/war.html
http://cichlostgeneration.blogspot.com/p/sherwood-anderson.html

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