Samantha McGehee Assignment 1

An allusion from "Inventing my Parents" is one to writers of the Lost Generation with "discussing Hemingway...Sinclair Lewis...and then Fitzgerald's." These writers wrote after World War One and their disillusionment with the war and the world that followed it. They strongly criticized the American culture after the war. The allusion to them contributes to the theme of the poem that war reaches all depths of American society and alters it. The people mentioned in the poem seem ignorant of the real impacts of the war, just the kind of people the Lost Generation criticized.