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Disillusionment Adams, Nick loses innocence through WWI experience. [Am. Lit.: “The Killers”] disillusioned postwar writers of Britain, such as Osborne and Amis. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 37] world-weary youth, typical of the lost generation that finds life unfulfilling. [Am. Lit.: This Side of Paradise] (de Rubempré) young poet realizes he is not destined for success. [Fr. Lit.: Balzac Lost Illusions in Magill II, 595] swindled, becomes disillusioned with Americans. [Br. Lit.: Martin Chuzzlewit] heartbroken by her husband’s neglect and the discovery of his infidelities. [Fr. Lit.: Maupassant A Woman’s Life in Magill I, 1127] disillusioned with wife, European tour, and American situation. [Am. Lit.: Dodsworth] attains success as a writer but loses desire to live when isolated from former friends and disenchanted with new ones. [Am. Lit.: Martin Eden] exposing the philosophy of post-war disillusionment. [Fr. Lit.: Journey to the End of the Night, Magill I, 453–455] learns in middle age that his life of romantic dreams was baseless. [Am. Lit.: The Cream of the Jest in Magill I, 168]
frustrated writer considers life complete waste. [Russ. Lit.: The Village] salesman victimized by own and America’s values. [Am. Lit.: Death of a Salesman] intellectuals and aesthetes, rootless and disillusioned, who came to maturity during World War I. [Am. Lit.: Benét, 600] “everyone got bitterness in his chosen thing.” [Am. Lit.: The Adventures of Augie March] a failing tavern-keeper, flamboyantly boasts of his past. [Am. Drama: Eugene O’Neill A Touch of the Poet in Benét, 737] naive youth is convinced by the devil that morals are false, God doesn’t exist, and there is no heaven or hell. [Am. Lit.: Benét, 697] (1890–1971) N.Y. Sun editorial dispels her disillusionment about Santa Claus (1897). [Am. Hist.: Rockwell, 188] wealthy count who has lost his taste for most literature, art, music, and women. [Fr. Lit.: Candide] prince and his companions search in vain for greater fulfillment than is possible in their Happy Valley. [Br. Lit.: Rasselas in Magill I, 804] clerk loses out in totalitarian world. [Br. Lit.: 1984] finds his native Southern town has degenerated morally and that his idealized, romantic Germany is corrupted. [Am. Lit.: Thomas Wolfe You Can’t Go Home Again] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The strange thing is that each one who has gone through that bitter disillusionment adds to it in his turn, unconsciously, by the power within him which is stronger than himself. "Or if not," she continued, pursuing her own thought with a painful application, "if it's not worth while to have given up, to have missed things, so that others may be saved from disillusionment and misery--then everything I came home for, everything that made my other life seem by contrast so bare and so poor because no one there took account of them--all these things are a sham or a dream--" Prince Andrew looked at the laughing Speranski with astonishment, regret, and disillusionment. |
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