The period after the First World War was not the best and why do we know this? Part of it is due to the group of writers called the Lost Generation who lived through the war and life afterward and did an amazing job providing in-depth information about their time. This work addresses the characteristics of the Lost Generation's works. In the first part of my essay I will describe the post-war period. In the second part I will tell you who the lost generation was. I will also describe the lives and arguments of the authors whose text I have selected. Next, in the third part I will highlight the characteristics and information I learned from the context, in the texts, then I will compare them and find the connections between them. Life in the United States after World War I After World War I, the world was changed forever. During the First World War it was rapidly transformed by new technologies and furthermore, thanks to them the war had a greater impact on people; the total number of victims was over 37 million. The war had forced the generation to grow up quickly, and for those who had spent years in the trenches, the war was all they really knew. "What will become of us?" one soldier asked another. “We've lived this life for so long. Now we have to start all over again." The years immediately following the First World War were not the most peaceful. People were not satisfied with the social and aesthetic conventions established at the time and some young artists tried to do something about it; they gathered in large cities, such as Chicago and San Francisco, to protest, to explore their own values, ones that clearly went against what their ancestors had already established, and to create new art. Some writers no longer felt the need to... half of the document......ttp://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/348402/Lost-Generation (accessed November 15, 2013)6 ) Dictionary. com LLC. “Quotes about the lost generation.” Dictionary.com. http://quotes.dictionary.com/search/lost+ generation?page=1#6XHegBM6tp3pU92F.99 (accessed 25 November 2013)7) Frenz, Horst, editor. "Nobel lectures on literature." Amsterdam: Elsevier publishing house. 1969.8) Pospíšil, Ivo, Simoneta Dembická, Jaroslav Kovář, Karolina Křížová, Petr Kyloušek, and Irena Přibylová. “Literature Světové 20. Století v kostce”. Prague: Books. 1999.9) Hemingway, Ernesto. “The sun also rises.” United States of America: Bantam Books, Inc.1949.10) Gray, Richard. "A History of American Literature." Malden: Blackwell, 2004.11) Fitzgerald, Francis Scott. “The Great Gatsby”. Australia, 1925. Planet eBooks Web. Accessed November 26, 2013. http://www.planetebook.com/ebooks/The-Great-Gatsby.pdf