Radio
Telephone
Automobile
Airplane
Submarine
Moving pictures

Big Bertha
Tanks
Machine guns
Flame throwers
Poison gas
Hand grenades
Airplanes
Dirigibles

Millions slaughtered
No resolution
Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations rejected

Traditional religions
Political systems
Rise of communism
Trad rules of morality, society thrown out

Implications???

Writers experiment with FORM
Lit seeks to capture modern life: disjointed, fragmented, doesn't follow set patterns
Stories are more ambiguous
Requires more effort on part of reader

Life is nasty, brutish, and short
Much uncertainty, bewilderment, apparent meaninglessness of life
Some people on a quest/journey for meaning
Only LOVE makes life worth living