The second loss Hemingway believes the Lost Generation has is a loss of faith in God. In Inter-Chapter 7 Hemingway shows a soldier in the middle of trench warfare, which was typically seen in World War 1. The soldier would plead to Jesus, “Dear jesus please get me out. Christ please please christ. If you’ll only keep me from getting killed I’ll do anything you say.” Notice how Hemingway would use a lowercase ‘J’ and ‘C’ when the soldier would refer to Jesus as compared to the narrator would would use an uppercase ‘J’; “The next night back at the Mestre he did not tell the girl he went upstairs with at the Villa Rossa about Jesus.” This utilization of proper and non-proper nouns shows us that the soldier has lost faith in God. Continuing on
