Loss and it's Impact on Modernist Works: Winseburg, Ohio and The Sun Also Rises Lyrica Baxter College

Modernism was a period within literature that saw authors experimenting with different storytelling techniques and showcased the lives of the new generation who were living in an ever advancing technological society. This was an exciting time filled with innovation and creating new from the old, but from these changes a sense of loss of certain things was seen. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson are both modernist novels that explored the theme of loss, in similar yet different ways. These novels shared in the common ideas of how loss of communication, reputation, truths and overall how the lost generation lived with these losses and the ways they handled them. Even though both books shared these themes, they also had their differences in how the characters dealt with the loss or how the loss affected them.

The modernist time period was one that dealt a lot with the ideas of how individuals can feel a sense of loss in an ever changing world. This was especially true within The Sun Also Rises and Winesburg, Ohio. Both these novels showcased what it means to be in a world that had been changed and altered which has created a sense of loss. In Hemingway’s work many of his characters can...