Essays on Sinclair Lewis

Question 1. “The Lost Generation". The Lost Generation is a group of writers who came in during World War I to express their disappointment with the World War I era. The Lost Generation comprised of writers like Ernest Hemingway, Edith Wharton, Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis and John Dos Passos. The Lost Generation felt that they were being alienated from the society; therefore, they decided to escape and criticize the alienation. Some of the members of the Lost Generation literally escaped. The Lost Generation writers lived an immigrant life in Paris and others went to Berlin or Rome. The Lost ...

The book presents the crisis of the 1920s as difficult for individuals to define themselves as well as create an original and personal meaning of their life. It reflects the crisis as one where the society expects a person to live up to their standards and expectations which are almost impossible for self-realization (Arnestrand 50). The society deprives one of his or her options through the mandate for conformity and standardization. As far as there are limited options people get from the community, Babbitt’s conflicts with himself reflect the fact that people are living in life where they ...

Literature is a way that to learn about the rhythms of cycles of life. Fiction with a good plot and interesting characters is entertaining but even in fiction the author is sharing the topics that he or she thinks is important. The ideas that are presented through the characters and settings may be universal such as love is good and hate is bad. But most often literature addresses complex and even controversial issues as one or more of the themes.

The thesis of this paper is that fiction entertains us while giving us an opportunity to explore important issues in life. ...