When serving in the war you don't know if you're going to make it through the first day, you can never tell the future. You come back home and you’re a hero because you have those ugly battle wounds to prove it , which contributes to the Lost Generation. The Lost Generation are the soldiers who are unstable for a period of time following what they faced in the war. It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing. (4.25) . Jake Barnes is a Lost boy who returned with both mental trauma and a physical scar that creates his insecurity doesn't just affect him .. but anyone in his life really. [Georgette] looked up to be kissed. She touched me with one hand and I put her hand away. "Never mind."
