Imagine trying to return to a normal lifestyle after your days were filled with news of terrible violence, destruction, and the deaths of your friends and families. Hearing the stories or experiencing yourself, the horrors of war can never be forgotten. The tragedies that come with mass destruction are not easily to recover from physically, emotionally, or mentally. After living through days where disaster had been an everyday norm, your perception of the world is susceptible to changing. This is exactly what happened with a group known as “The Lost Generation.” After World War I ended, there was a gap of adjustment where people were trying to return to normal life. They reevaluated the way they viewed the world and where they stood in regards to their beliefs, spirituality, and patriotism.This disparity and the yearning for their desires, which are out of their control, is seen in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The characters in The Great Gatsby are searching and waiting for the visions they have created in their mind to come true. The question that presents itself is: after all the measures the characters go to achieve their dreams, do they ever find what they were looking for? While that they be subjective, the Great Gatsby some very compelling evidence in regards to that question.
The Lost Generation was often inclined to feeling as if everything was out of their control and in this loss, they were desperately trying to regain control. The Buchanans were products of this idea.Tom especially,as he took this sense of control to the extremes by adopting a very domineering attitude. This control was seen when he demands that Daisy had and always will love him. In The Great Gatsby, Tom exclaimed, "I can't speak about wha...
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...’s dream exemplifies his “ lost” nature and symbolizes the drifting from true success the people of the Lost Generation felt.
When one is lost, the simple solution appears to be to redirect and you will get to your destination. This is not as simple as it sounds especially in the case of The Lost Generation. They did not know their destination, they were just floating through life. The dead ends they felt they were subjected were implications that any war has on the people involved. The characters of The Great Gatsby search and eventually realize the realities of their hopes and dreams. Coping with these lost dreams they drank,partied, and lived careless lives. All of this recklessness did not come to a stop until disaster hit and everyone really abandoned the idea of American Dream.
Works Cited
Fitzgerald, Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribner, 2004.
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