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Later in the story, Paul writes that “Their stillness is the reason why these memories of former

Later in the story, Paul writes that “Their stillness is the reason why these memories of former times do not awaken desire so much as sorrow—a vast, inapprehensible melancholy. Once we had such desires—but they return not. They are past, they belong to another world that is gone

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Later in the story, Paul writes that “Their stillness is the reason why these memories of former

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  1. Later in the story, Paul writes that “Their stillness is the reason why these memories of former times do not awaken desire so much as sorrow—a vast, inapprehensible melancholy. Once we had such desires—but they return not. They are past, they belong to another world that is gone from us,” (121). What have Paul and his friends lost? Innocence? Love? The ability to remember their prior lives? Their sense of humanity?

  2. On page 123, Paul says that “We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.” Does this feeling seem to confirm Gertrude Stein’s assessment that the post‐war generation is “The lost generation?”

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