After the ending of the Great War, America no longer had the qualities it had as a strong, new nation. It used to have prosperity, faith, and patriotism, and children grew up to be strong-moraled adults indefinitely. WWI brought despair into the optimistic nation there once was. It was the first major event to happen that darkened the mindsets of patriotic America. People began to lose hope, and lose faith in the morals and beliefs that had existed thus far. Previously, young adults were brought up with certain morals that guaranteed them success throughout life. But as people lost faith in those morals, young people disagreed with them and grew into a new culture of rebelling against expected behavior as well as intellectualism. Referring to the group the Britannica Encyclopedia states, “its inherited values were no longer relevant in the postwar” (Lost Generation). This generation is known as the lost generation, or “a group of U.S. writers who came of age during the war and established their literary reputations in the 1920s” (Lost Generation).
Particularly made up of artists and authors, this group contained people like Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, as they introduced critical thinking and intellectual interpretations of art and literature. These people tended to migrate to Europe, seeking a bohemian lifestyle, traveling about and creating art. They moved post WWI until the end of the Great Depression. They were against certain expectations no longer relevant post war. The 1920s was all about a new era of thinking and living that which the lost generation was living proof of.
Particularly made up of artists and authors, this group contained people like Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, as they introduced critical thinking and intellectual interpretations of art and literature. These people tended to migrate to Europe, seeking a bohemian lifestyle, traveling about and creating art. They moved post WWI until the end of the Great Depression. They were against certain expectations no longer relevant post war. The 1920s was all about a new era of thinking and living that which the lost generation was living proof of.