PartV.Twentieth-CenturyLiteraturen1920s,JazzAge.nI.HistoricalBackground:WWI,peace-makingperiod/boomtime.nPolitically,US entered WWI in 1917 for purity anddemocracy.The period of peace-making ended withgeneraldisillusionmentaboutthevalueofwar:onlyasenseofthefailureofpoliticalleadersandabeliefinthefutilityofhope.Noabidingsolutionstotheworldsproblemswasfound.Andtheresurgenceofnationalismandtheriseofnewtotalitarianismproduceasecondworldwar.20s,JazzAgenEconomically,becauseofthewar,Americanindustrydev
