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The Lost Generation Lost Generation refers to the generation after the World War I. Meanwhile, it also refers to the young writers who lived as expatriates(移居国外者) in Western Europe for a short time. The term Lost Generation was coined by Gertrude Stein (格特鲁德.斯坦 )to refer to a group of American literary notables (A person of distinction or great 名人 )who lived in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. Significant members included Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, Waldo Peirce, and Gertrude Stein herself. The Lost Generation Because most of his works take the war as background, describe the pains and hurt the war brings to human being, and reflect a younger generation’s aimlessness and loss of the beliefs after the World War I, these works immediately won the responses from many people who survived the war physically but were afterwards spiritually and morally adrift ( without direction or purpose). Then, Hemingway became the spokesman for what the Gertrude Stein had called “The Lost Generation”. The Lost Generation The Lost Generation is also called the Sad Young Man by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his book which describes the disillusioned younger generation after the First World War. Life born in a small town called Oak Park in Illinois near Chicago father: a successful physician, middle class, love fishing and hunting; mother: music teacher a happy childhood; a lover of brutal sports, such as boxing and football in middle school Though his father hoped him to be a physician, Hemingway refused to enter university. He chose to be a reporter. During the WWI, he wanted to join the army but was refused because of his poor eyesight. Then Hemingway came to Italy to work as an ambulance driver. He was seriously wounded in the battlefield. The nightmarish war experience changed his life. Life After the war, he still worked as a reporter. He was sent to Paris and knew Pound, Gertrude Stein, Sherwood Anderson and some other famous writers who encouraged him to