Look around and see if there is anything in your life that you are willing to change. If yes then you are now thinking like a Modernist. They wanted to change plenty of things like American literature, traditions, and societal reforms. This era chose to rebel against anything that wasn’t their way and they were going to fight for what they wanted. It’s just like the toddlers you see in the grocery store throwing a tantrum when they don’t get what they want. This is also the era where women’s voices were heard, maybe not all but just enough to get their opinions and thoughts across. Power to the women!   They knew what they wanted and they were going to get it one way or another for example the flappers. Flappers wanted to show how women weren’t just housewives but also and always will be independent.    

  Most writers thought this was the perfect time to state what they thought was wrong and they did it through writing. Like the “Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This book is known for its youthfulness, being rebellious toward society and its approach to American Literature make people want to question the reason of the American Dream.  Then we have “Their Eyes were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston. This book spreads life messages of love and hate to those who are willing to listen. Also this book pushed the boundaries of women stereotypes and giving women their voice and encouraging them to use it. Another writer from this time would be Ernest Hemingway and his work called “A Farewell to Arms”, the meaning behind this work is that our society has a hard time telling the difference from love and violence. No one really know how to truly avoid violence; it’s just something that runs in American history. The Great Depression showed that not everyone belongs in the American Dream but that people can’t predict what is going to happen in the future= and they can plan to stop it because that not their part its Gods’.  Not only did more writers come to light but also poets for example “The Road Not Taken”, by Robert Frost. The poem is basically shouting to do what you want and to not let others decisions to influence you own. Even if plenty of people have used or followed one another you have stay true to what you want no matter how many people look at you differently. Another poem would be “Another Time”, by W.H. Auden, this poem is spreading the message that violence isn’t the answer to everything and that we need to learn that before people start to lose their lives. If you were thinking that these are the only ways writers knew how to bring to light the changes you are wrong. The short story “The Dead”, by James Joyce, the significance of this story is to show that you can’t keep holding grudges against someone because it’s no physically or mentally healthy for you or the other person.

   I’m not going to end this essay with a boring conclusion or even a conclusion at all, just to stay in the mindsets of a Modernist. So, feel free to make one up as you please.