"This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper." (T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men) "…but a whimper.", Eliot was writing of the Lost Generation. The period after World War I were people were disillusioned, wandering through their life lost, not sure what their goal was. In Ernest Hemmingway's novel, The Sun Also Rises, the Lost …showed first 75 words of 876 total…

…showed last 75 words of 876 total…it was a lost cause in reality, ' "Oh, Jake," Brett said, "we could have had such a damned good time together."…"Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?" ' Hemmingway enlightened an age that had turned its backs on the world and shot its eyes to the light of the sun, for it had set on them at the end of the war. However, Hemmingway showed them that the sun also rises.