Abstract

This paper makes a thematic study on the formation of the lost generation based on the analysis of Hemingway's experience in WWI and his novel A Farewell to Arms's protagonist, Frederic Henry's charateristic.The exploration of this subject is made in three steps with the young Hemingway's experience as its clue. The first part of the essay mainly makes a short introduction of the lost generation.In the second part, I choose the novel A Farewell to Arms to analyze the changes of Henry's charateristic.Then, I compare the fictional hero with Hemingway in the real life,which proves that the war has a great impact on the joiners. In the third part,I conclude the historical and cultural reasons that couse the formation of the lost generation.

Part I

The lost generation is a term...