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Well, I think that a lot of it had to do with life post WWI. People were considered a "lost generation" according to modernist writer Gertrude Stein. It's as if they lived their life without hope. Reading Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" could be a good book to understand life in the modern era.

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