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In four very short sentences, explain how the writing associated with the Lost Generation reflected the new emphasis on consumerism in American culture. Provide examples of Lost Generation authors and literary works.

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Lost Generation writers showed material goods and leisure replacing traditional values.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby shows wealth, parties, and consumption shaping identity.
John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer and Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises portray mass urban culture and hollow pleasure-seeking.
Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt satirizes middle-class consumer conformity and status-worship.