Lost Generation

Gertrude Stein, an American female writer who mostly resides in France, is credited with coining the term "lost generation." The term "lost generation" also applies to the postwar American expatriates who settled in France. But she isn't the one who coined the phrase. There is another story behind its origin. Immediately following World War I, the phrase "Lost Generation" was used to represent a generation of women and men in their twenties and thirties. It's usually associated with poets and writers from the 1920s.

More than 9 million troops and 12 million civilians died in World War I, leaving many who survived with P.T.S.D. Due to the terrible consequence, people lost trust in courage, strength, patriotism, and traditional values. Those born in the latter two decades of the 1800s, in particular, were extremely heavily struck. The survivors of the Great War were physically and emotionally scarred. Friends and loved ones are lost, and their careers and prospects are also lost.

The "lost generation" is a "fortunate" generation that lived to see the end of the war, but a portion of them appears to have "died" in the smoke of gunfire. They are alive, but they are continually lost, miserable, and gloomy about their prospects. Those who participated in and fought in the Great War were dubbed the "Lost Generation" because they never fully recovered from their tribulations.