Analysis Of The Lost Generation In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Gertrude Stein concluded that everyone becomes civilized between the ages of 18 - 25. If he does not go through a civilizing experience, at that time in his life he will not be a civilized person. And the men who went to war never met that civilizing moment, those were the ones who were lost, they were the lost generation. That is her explanation for a group of people who listlessly went through life after mindset being dramatically changed after the experience of millions of deaths and the trench warfare of the war. This term lost generation more explicitly addresses the attitude of the writers and artists of the period after the war. Their attitude challenged the morals and the ethics that their mother and father and their mother and father lived by, along with that

Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald lived a life of extravagance and decadence thanks to tremendous wages from his short stories. That life was being simultaneously lived by all others who lived in Paris. He would spout out a short story in a day, then maybe party for five days, very similar, to the lifestyle demonstrated in the Sun Also Rises. That theme of decadence was also explored in his greatest novel, The Great Gatsby. It shows the attitudes of the lost generation to a T, with overarching cynicism and empty pursuit of pleasure. And the extravagance is shown through lavish parties that Gatsby throws every Saturday.

Lastly, the first artist that co-pioneered the style of cubism and collages into the art world, Pablo Picasso. During the time of the lost generation he reflected the typical values and it showed in his work with his works after showing a distorted sense of reality or surrealism after the war. Though primarily, as he was producing works before the war, he is seen as one of the strongest influencers of the lost generation, with authors like Hemingway taking inspiration from