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The Lost Generation were a group of American writers who became known during World War I and established their reputations in the 1920s. Mainly, they were the entire post-World War I American generation. The term was brought up by Gertude Stein to describe the poets, artists, and novelists that denied the values of post World War I America and moved to Pais to live a bohemian lifestyle. During this period they drank excessively, had love …

…and lavish way of life he feels are necessary to win the love of Daisy Buchanan, a married, upper-class woman who had once rejected him.The story ends tragically with Gatsby's destruction. Fitzgerald began a battle with alcoholism that went on for the rest of his life, and Zelda experienced a series of mental breakdowns in the early 1930s that eventually led to her institutionalization.At the age of 44 Fitzgerald died of a heart attack.