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.
I chose this:
"I like to come," Lucille said. "I never care what I do, so I always have a good time. When I was here last I tore my gown on a chair, and he asked me my name and address – inside of a week I got a package from Croirier's with a new evening gown in it."
"Did you keep it?" asked Jordan.
"Sure I did. I was going to wear it tonight, but it was too big in the bust and had to be altered. It was gas blue with lavender beads. Two hundred and sixty-five dollars (Chapt. 3, pg 43).”
This encapsulates the materialistic mindset of the post- WWI young adults, who felt that money would soothe them and make up for what they were missing. Progression and advancement, things of value, were replaced by hedonistic behaviors and the search for wealth. In the passage I included, Lucille carelessly tears her dress. When she receives a new dress, an exact replacement (courtesy of a man she met the night she tore the original), she is more impressed about it being replaced because of its cost than because of the gesture of kindness exercised by the replacer. To me, that really represents the way that the lost generation valued things.
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