Editing Lost Generation (section)

===Themes===
[[File:Underwoodfive.jpg|thumb|[[Typewriter]]s entered common use as a writing tool for the Lost Generation]]

The writings of the Lost Generation literary figures often pertained to the writers' experiences in [[World War I]] and the years following it. It is said that the work of these writers was autobiographical based on their use of mythologized versions of their lives.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds, and the Lost Generation: An Interview with Kirk Curnutt {{!}} The Hemingway Project |url=http://www.thehemingwayproject.com/hemingway-the-fitzgeralds-and-the-lost-generation-an-interview-with-kirk-curnutt/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160329202009/http://www.thehemingwayproject.com/hemingway-the-fitzgeralds-and-the-lost-generation-an-interview-with-kirk-curnutt/ |archive-date=29 March 2016 |access-date=30 March 2016 |website=www.thehemingwayproject.com}}</ref> One of the themes that commonly appear in the authors' works is decadence and the frivolous lifestyle of the wealthy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lost Generation {{!}} Great Writers Inspire |url=https://writersinspire.org/content/lost-generation |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409171140/http://www.writersinspire.org/content/lost-generation |archive-date=9 April 2016 |access-date=30 March 2016 |website=writersinspire.org}}</ref> Both Hemingway and [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] touched on this theme throughout the novels ''The Sun Also Rises'' and ''[[The Great Gatsby]]''. Another theme commonly found in the works of these authors was the death of the [[American Dream]], which is exhibited throughout many of their novels.<ref>{{Cite web |title=American Lost Generation |url=http://www.interestingarticles.com/literature/american-lost-generation-11089.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410005902/http://www.interestingarticles.com/literature/american-lost-generation-11089.html |archive-date=10 April 2016 |access-date=30 March 2016 |website=InterestingArticles.com}}</ref> It is particularly prominent in ''The Great Gatsby'', in which the character [[Nick Carraway]] comes to realize the corruption that surrounds him.