SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE IMAGE OF WOMEN ON THE FRONT AND IN THE REAR IN THE LITERATURE OF THE “LOST GENERATION” (BASED ON THE WORKS OF F. S. FITZGERALD AND E. HEMINGWAY)
Keywords:
Lost Generation, female image, “The Great Gatsby”, “A Farewell to Arms”, gender transformation, interwar literature, artistic representation, comparative literary studies, war and gender.Abstract
This article presents an artistic and socio-psychological analysis of female images in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925) and Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms (1929). Drawing on a comparative methodology that integrates historical-cultural contextualization and gender analysis, the study examines the social conditions, psychological world, and artistic representation of women who lived both at the front and behind the lines in the aftermath of the First World War. Although both novels belong to the literary tradition of the “Lost Generation,” they reveal fundamentally different approaches to the image of femininity: Fitzgerald employs his female characters as instruments of social critique, exposing the moral crisis of post-war American society, while Hemingway constructs Catherine Barkley as a symbol of love, self-sacrifice, and tragic beauty set against the ruins of war.
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