Modernism in Literature
The colective protaganist
Shift from one centered character to a group
Group of writers shaped by WWI postwar disillusionment
The Lost Generation
Author of the Great Gastby
F. Scott Fizgerald
Peak of modernism
after WWI
Shift from idealism during WWI
Disillusionment
Author of the The Sun Also Rises
Give an example of an unreliable narrator
Nick Carraway, Katniss Everdeen, Holden Caulfield
Give two things America experienced before modernism
Industrialization, Urbanization, Immigration, Social Expectations
Author of Main Street and Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis
Fragmentism
What lead to the collective protagonist
Great Depression
Author of the Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton