After the disillusionment with the American lifestyle, lost generation members felt the alienation in their homeland. The feeling that they have no connection with the American inhabitants had grown up. In December 1919, Hemingway spent the winter in Toronto, Canada, and began to write stories to The Toronto Star. In the summer of 1920, He moved to Chicago where he wrote articles for a local magazine. After a year of working in the city, he began planning to leave the constraints of the American life and return to the less restrictive culture of the Europe. Thereafter, he met Hadley Richardson, a young woman from St. Louis. They felt in love and were married in September 1921. Hemingway met Sherwood Anderson; who was one of the first writers
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He advised him to move to Paris because the living was less costly; also Paris was full of young artists and writers from all over the world that could help him with his writing. On the other hand, Fitzgerald’s increased disillusionment with the American lifestyle is clear in his magazine articles that attacked the American “wasting class,” which he depicted as the shallowest, hollowest, most pernicious leisure class in the world. Fitzgerald was unable to concentrate on his novels because of the distraction at Great Neck. He and Zelda decided to leave America and go to France. As he wrote in one of his articles: “We were going to the Old World to find a new rhythm for our lives with a true conviction that we had left our old selves behind forever.” On May 1924, Fitzgerald and his wife sailed to Europe. 2 Paris, The Capital. Why Paris? That’s the question that came to my mind after I knew about this research’s topic. “To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable …show more content…
At that time, it was cheap to live there, Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley Richardson, were paying $20 per month for a small cold-water flat near the Pantheon and could live on as little as $1 a day. In one article Hemingway told how Canadians could live in Paris “very comfortably” on $1,000 a year. Furthermore, the French had different moral standards than those who held by Americans in the years after the war. The Lost Generation writers decided to revolt against the American puritanism and traditional middle class values. For example, Hemingway was annoyed by the American three prohibitions. Paris did not have any prohibition, and with suitable exchange rates, drinking in cafes was certainly a big part of each day’s activities for many of the artists, even those lacking much in the way of funds. The writers, artists, and composers that left the United States for Paris rejected the values of post-World War I America and relocated to Paris to live a bohemian lifestyle. Not only that, but also The French held more unchained ideas concerning sexuality and were not disturbed by the illicit love affairs in which many expatriates were involved
He advised him to move to Paris because the living was less costly; also Paris was full of young artists and writers from all over the world that could help him with his writing. On the other hand, Fitzgerald’s increased disillusionment with the American lifestyle is clear in his magazine articles that attacked the American “wasting class,” which he depicted as the shallowest, hollowest, most pernicious leisure class in the world. Fitzgerald was unable to concentrate on his novels because of the distraction at Great Neck. He and Zelda decided to leave America and go to France. As he wrote in one of his articles: “We were going to the Old World to find a new rhythm for our lives with a true conviction that we had left our old selves behind forever.” On May 1924, Fitzgerald and his wife sailed to Europe. 2 Paris, The Capital. Why Paris? That’s the question that came to my mind after I knew about this research’s topic. “To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable …show more content…
At that time, it was cheap to live there, Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley Richardson, were paying $20 per month for a small cold-water flat near the Pantheon and could live on as little as $1 a day. In one article Hemingway told how Canadians could live in Paris “very comfortably” on $1,000 a year. Furthermore, the French had different moral standards than those who held by Americans in the years after the war. The Lost Generation writers decided to revolt against the American puritanism and traditional middle class values. For example, Hemingway was annoyed by the American three prohibitions. Paris did not have any prohibition, and with suitable exchange rates, drinking in cafes was certainly a big part of each day’s activities for many of the artists, even those lacking much in the way of funds. The writers, artists, and composers that left the United States for Paris rejected the values of post-World War I America and relocated to Paris to live a bohemian lifestyle. Not only that, but also The French held more unchained ideas concerning sexuality and were not disturbed by the illicit love affairs in which many expatriates were involved