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Lost Generation

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  • Who supported young writers in Paris?
    Gertrude Stein.
  • Where did most of them live?
    Paris.
  • Hemingway’s writing style?
    Minimalist.
  • What event shaped their views?
    World War I.
  • Who wrote The Great Gatsby?
    F. Scott Fitzgerald.
  • What is the Lost Generation?
    Disillusioned post-WWI American writers.
  • Who popularized the term?
    Ernest Hemingway.
  • What theory did Hemingway develop?
    Iceberg Theory.
  • What does Gatsby symbolize?
    Failed American Dream.
  • What is The Waste Land about?
    Spiritual crisis.
  • Who coined the term “Lost Generation”?
    Gertrude Stein.
  • What did they reject?
    Traditional values.
  • What did they say about the American Dream?
    It’s an illusion
  • Two key themes in their works?
    Disillusionment, alienation.
  • Who championed modernist poetry?
    Ezra Pound.
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