The Lost Generation were a group of American writers who became known during World War I and established their reputations in the 1920s. Mainly, they were the entire post-World War I American generation. The term was brought up by Gertude Stein to describe the poets, artists, and novelists that denied the values of post World War I America and moved to Pais to live a bohemian lifestyle. During this period they drank excessively, had love …showed first 75 words of 381 total…

…showed last 75 words of 381 total…and lavish way of life he feels are necessary to win the love of Daisy Buchanan, a married, upper-class woman who had once rejected him.The story ends tragically with Gatsby's destruction. Fitzgerald began a battle with alcoholism that went on for the rest of his life, and Zelda experienced a series of mental breakdowns in the early 1930s that eventually led to her institutionalization.At the age of 44 Fitzgerald died of a heart attack.