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Hemingway’s Hero Of the segments of American society scarred by the anguish of the First World War, the damage was most severe amongst the younger generation of that time. Youthful and impressionable, these people were immersed headlong into the furious medley of death and devastation. By the time the war had ended, many found that they could no longer accept what now seemed to be pretentious and contradictory moral standards of nations that could be capable of such atrocities. Some were able to brush off the pain and confusion enough to get on with their lives. Others simply found themselves incapable of existing under their country’s thin façade of virtuousness and went abroad, searching for some sense of identity or meaning. These self-exiled expatriates were popularly known as the “Lost Generation” a term credited to Gertrude Stein, who once told Hemingway: “That’s what you all are. All you young people who served in the war. You are a lost......

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