There are many ways the novel The Great Gatsby demonstrates the Lost Generation in with the time frame. At the beginning of the book both Gatsby and Nick go off to World War 1. After the war has ended, no one has a purpose. All people came to care about was the war and hoped the United States would win it. People were highly focused on the war, whether it was fighting to win it, selling war bonds for money to use for the war, and more. Now that people did not know what to do with their lives they began to care about other things such as money, parties, and drinking. Their values and morales had completely changed, they were lost in society, thus they were known as the Lost Generation. Everyone had forgotten who they were, they became careless