Ernest Hemingway believes the generation that came of age after World War I is a lost generation. This is apparent in The Sun Also Rises, where his characters lack any direction, wasting their lives in a foreign land drinking, partying, and traveling as a way to escape reality. Jake Barnes, the pro...

"This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper." (T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men) "...but a whimper.", Eliot was writing of the Lost Generation. The period after World War I were people were disillusioned, wandering thro...