Having learned something about the Lost Generation in class, find a passage in this week's reading that reflects the feelings of many people after WWI. To what extent does this passage represent the worldview of the Lost Generation? Please copy the passage as part of your answer. (To what extent: Consider the merits or otherwise of an argument or concept. Opinions and conclusions should be presented clearly and supported with appropriate evidence and sound argument.)
One passage that reminds me of the Lost Generation in The Great Gatsby is not a very long one, but an effective one. It is when Nick Carraway is with Tom Buchanan and his lover, Myrtle Wilson, and their crowd. "People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away," (37).
The reason this passage reminds me of the Lost Generation, instead of a passage about Gatsby's lavish parties is because people who were in their twenties and thirties after World War I had a lack of purpose and were aimless. The characters in this excerpt were in a small apartment, yet they were getting lost and disappearing and searching for each other and finding each other, and to me, that is symbolizing on a small scale what their generation as a whole were going through.
When I first read that quote I was confused, because how could that happen to people in a loft? After re-reading it, I understood that that's how they were feeling: confused, and it still strikes me to my core.
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