The word “The Lost Generation” is popularized by Ernest Hemingway, which refers to the young generation of writers after World War I. F. Scoot Fitzgerald, T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and Hart Crane are artists of the “Lost Generation”. There are common characteristic of the artists of “Lost Generation”. They are lived in Paris, lost their positions in their lives, addicted to alcohol and have party-centered lifestyles. They are affected by the war and it makes their writing style different from other generation, which makes them unique in the American Literary. Their works are also affected by their unique experience of war and their lifestyles. As a famous writer of the “Lost Generation,” Fitzgerald writes about Charlie Wales’s
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Charlie Wales is a father who wants her daughter’s custody. Even thought in the end of the story, he may not win and he is still alone. Charlie Wales’s desire of regain his child is similar to Gatsby’s desire of regain Daisy in Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” (Sutton 165). They both hope that by winning the female, they will “recapture a happier, more innocent past and will somehow wipe out the intervening years when the female was not his” (Sutton 165). In “The Great Gatsby,” Gatsby wants to regain Daisy for his idealist past; even though the narrator tells him that he cannot repeat the past. Charlie Wales tries to regain his daughter to regain the uncomplicated virtues of his life (Sutton 165). He wants to fix his personal mistake and brings back the life before he destroys his marriage, which cause his wife dies. Gatsby and Charlie both have a similar ending of losing the female they want. Both stories tell that the past is gone and never be received (Sutton 166). In “Babylon Revisited,” Charlie dreams about his wife that “She said that he was perfectly right about Honoria and that she wanted Honoria to be with him. She said she was glad he was being good and doing better. She said a lot of other things-very friendly things-but she was in a swing in a white dress, ad swinging faster and faster all the time, so that at the end he could not hear clearly all that she said” (Fitzgerald 685). The dream that Charlie hear Honoria’s mother says he is qualified to have Honoria with him and he has become a good person besides an alcoholic is just a dream. It is a hint that Charlie will not regain her daughter because dream will be gone when he wakes up and never comes true. So does Gatsby, when he talks to Daisy who is in a white dress, he finds that she leaving him in the “dead dream” (Sutton 166). It seems that he did try his effort to make up
Charlie Wales is a father who wants her daughter’s custody. Even thought in the end of the story, he may not win and he is still alone. Charlie Wales’s desire of regain his child is similar to Gatsby’s desire of regain Daisy in Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” (Sutton 165). They both hope that by winning the female, they will “recapture a happier, more innocent past and will somehow wipe out the intervening years when the female was not his” (Sutton 165). In “The Great Gatsby,” Gatsby wants to regain Daisy for his idealist past; even though the narrator tells him that he cannot repeat the past. Charlie Wales tries to regain his daughter to regain the uncomplicated virtues of his life (Sutton 165). He wants to fix his personal mistake and brings back the life before he destroys his marriage, which cause his wife dies. Gatsby and Charlie both have a similar ending of losing the female they want. Both stories tell that the past is gone and never be received (Sutton 166). In “Babylon Revisited,” Charlie dreams about his wife that “She said that he was perfectly right about Honoria and that she wanted Honoria to be with him. She said she was glad he was being good and doing better. She said a lot of other things-very friendly things-but she was in a swing in a white dress, ad swinging faster and faster all the time, so that at the end he could not hear clearly all that she said” (Fitzgerald 685). The dream that Charlie hear Honoria’s mother says he is qualified to have Honoria with him and he has become a good person besides an alcoholic is just a dream. It is a hint that Charlie will not regain her daughter because dream will be gone when he wakes up and never comes true. So does Gatsby, when he talks to Daisy who is in a white dress, he finds that she leaving him in the “dead dream” (Sutton 166). It seems that he did try his effort to make up