Keionna Bailey Assignment 1

In "Inventing my Parents", Ludvigson alludes to the lost generation. "They sit in the bright café discussing Hemingway and how this war will change them." He mentions one of the writers of the lost generation, Ernest Hemingway. He later on mentions Fitzgerald who is another writer of this generation. Ludvigson hints on what the Lost Generation is which are the group of people who possessed values unrelated to the postwar era. This idea that the war will change people is the idea that they will no longer have they same beliefs such as the previous generations. Ludvigson touches on this with, "They disagree about the American Dream". This idea of the Lost Generation contributes to the poet's thoughts that the war was changing the mindsets of people in the 1940s and the writings of Hemmingway and Fitzgerald were losing their importance.