What makes `The Great Gatsby` by Fitzgerald to a novel of the Lost Generation?

p What makes `The Great Gatsby` by Fitzgerald to a novel of the Lost Generation

Introduction

The pages of human history , daubed in bloodshed due to violence related to World War I II , race and color , religious intolerance , territorial conquests and materialistic aggrandizement , ask the crying question . How to make this Planet Earth heaven-like ? The answer is simple and direct Eyes full of understanding , hearts full of love and the life that refuses conflicts-enough , these alone are enough ! Intellectuals , poets artists and are individuals with conviction and they generally stand

loyal to their country in times of peril . But the stand taken by the Lost Generation and intellectuals was quite different - call it opportunistic . They rejected the values of American materialism , and seeking comfortable lifestyles , moved to Paris , France . The exiles of 1921 came to Europe seeking one thing and found another . They came to recover the good life and the traditions of art , to free them from organized stupidity , to win their deserved place in the hierarchy of the intellect . Having come in search of values , they found valuta (Cowley br

.81 ) Gertrude Stein , the American poet , coined the expression , lost generation ' She told Earnest Hemingway , You are all a lost generation ' This group of individuals involved in love affairs , took to intoxication as their way of life . The Lost Generation team consisted of F . Scott Fitzgerald , Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos , Sherwood Anderson , Kay Boyle , Hart Crane , Ford Maddox Ford , Zelda Fitzgerald etc F . Scott Fitzgerald is remembered as the portrayer of the spirit of the Jazz age . when first published , The Great Gatsby on the other hand , sold only 25 ,000 copies .Fitzgerald 's Gatsby is the story of a somewhat refined and wealthy bootlegger whose morality is contrasted with the hypocritical attitude of most of his acquaintances . Many literary critics consider Gatsby his best work (What is ) The Lost Generations dominated the scene of the 20th Century literature The new generations of writes , accepted them as models , fortunately or unfortunately , and this literature played its part and contributed to the prevailing social , cultural , economic and political scenes . Standard of living , viewed from the materialistic angle and standard of life from the point of view of morals , ethics and spirituality , are like the scale of justice both arms of the scale are equally important to strike the correct balance and achieve the state of individual happiness and social harmony . A whole generation of American --and how many others , architects , painters , bond salesmen , professors and their wives all the more studious and impressionable section of the middle-class youth--had been uprooted , schooled away , almost wrenched away (Malcolm ,

, 206 )They were trying to establish a new identity in consistent with their newfound tastes and beliefs

In the cited book , Malcolm Cowley makes a sample survey and treatment of born between 1894 and 1990 , whose names have been given elsewhere in this essay . These , according to Cowley , are the architects of the second literary renaissance...