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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] |
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Eventually the disappointments, disillusionments, and failures become a norm in life that creates tremendous inner stress. His films since have dramatized Canada-US relations in Deserters; explored the dangers and disillusionments of middle-age in Kingsgate; and satirized the precarious nature of the Canadian film industry in Overnight, about an actor who ends up in porn films to survive and is encouraged by a proud fellow performer with this immortal rallying cry: "We may be small, we may be dirty, but we're Canadian Yet if the opening of ``The Laws of Our Fathers'' - and its exploration of racial and political tensions - is vaguely reminiscent of Tom Wolfe's ``Bonfire of the Vanities,'' it soon becomes clear to the reader that the novel actually bears a closer resemblance to two movies, Lawrence Kasdan's ``Big Chill'' and John Sayles' ``Return of the Secaucus Seven'' - movies that chronicle the nervous reunion of former college radicals entering into the disillusionments of middle age. |
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