USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

1920S AMERICAN CULTURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Sinclair Lewis were all members of ____
A
Harlem Renaissance
B
Lost Generation
C
Untouchables
D
Chicago Underworld
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Known as the Lost Generation, writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Edith Wharton, and John Dos Passos expressed their hopelessness and despair by skewering the middle class in their work. They felt alienated from society, so they tried to escape (some literally) to criticize it.

Detailed explanation-2: -In literature, the “Lost Generation” refers to a group of writers and poets who were men and women of this period. All were American, but several members emigrated to Europe. The most famous members were Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and T. S.

Detailed explanation-3: -The term embraces Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, Hart Crane, and many other writers who made Paris the centre of their literary activities in the 1920s. They were never a literary school.

Detailed explanation-4: -The “Lost Generation” reached adulthood during or shortly after World War I. Disillusioned by the horrors of war, they rejected the traditions of the older generation. Their struggles were characterized in the works of a group of famous American authors and poets including Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F.

Detailed explanation-5: -As a member of the so-called “Lost Generation” of American writers who took up residence in Paris during the 1920s, Fitzgerald was profoundly influenced by his peers, notably Ernest Hemingway.

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