Much of the most well-known modern literature seems to directly focus on gender roles and gender issues, a theme that is present in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night, William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, and Earnest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. In my research project, I will compare and examine each author’s similar portrayal of changing gender roles and how these changes contributed to the formation of the notorious “lost generation.” Using a combination of information from various scholarly articles and a close analysis of each primary text, I will specifically focus on these three modern novelist’s insinuation of how changing ideas of masculinity and femininity, brought about by WWI and modernization, affected the lives ...