THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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politicians who criticized prohibition.
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painters who followed traditional themes.
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writers who criticized the culture of the 1920s.
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reformers who protested restrictions on immigration.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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. Eliot.
Detailed explanation-2: -The term “Lost Generation” became associated with a group of writers and artists with whom Hemingway worked in Paris, France, during the early 1920s. However, the term also refers more broadly to all those who reached adulthood during World War I.
Detailed explanation-3: -Though first intended to denote Americans brought to Europe by the First World War, the “Lost Generation” refers to writers and other artists from the United States who took up residence in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. The words themselves were first attributed to Gertrude Stein by Ernest Hemingway.
Detailed explanation-4: -Writers felt that the old norms were no longer relevant, the old ways of writing no longer relatable. They criticized what the country had become after losing a sense of hope in the war, and how its people, among other things, felt lost. Making sense of things, for them, was a frustrating exercise.