Power Of The Founding Fathers: The Lost Generation

When thinking about the influential people who shaped America, many people instantly think about our Founding Fathers and all the other individuals who have passed and created laws in order to make our nation what it is today. However, what about the writers this great land has seen? With their brilliant minds and their talent to document and create stories, why don’t these authors get the same recognition as the Founding Fathers do when they have just as much significance? Writers have the power to transform texts and persuade people to think a certain way or have a certain opinion due to the way that they write. Isn’t persuading the minds of the nation and offering new ideas on topics just as important as the Founding Fathers creating this nation? Although most writers have significant impacts on their time period, one time period in particular, the 1920s, saw one of the most influential groups of writers this nation has ever known. Referred to as the “Lost Generation,” this time included writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Gertrude Stein. Overall, despite the title of the “Lost Generation,” these writers were actually not lost,
This example is a clear picture of just what people were like, they were careless in the way that they lived their lives, they had no regard for others, and they just wanted to party day in and day out. Fitzgerald, describing hypocrisy and carelessness in The Great Gatsby, exposed the American society for what it really was, something nobody had done up to this point in literature. As a result of this, Fitzgerald broke away from the norm and leapt over the boundary of being too afraid to try something different, making him the “Lost Generation” writer who had the strongest effect on American