In the postwar period, disillusionment influenced the work of many artists and writers, prompting them to question and examine human progress.
The postward, which developed between World War I and World War II, was a period of disillusionment and lost. Contradictory impulses were portrayed in the art works since advances in science and technology in Western countries brought a sense of unprecedented progress. However, the devastation of World War I and the Great Depression caused widespread suffering in Europe and the United States. Although artists expressed contradictory feelings of destruction as well as despair which caused loss of faith in traditional structures and beliefs, the postwar period resulted to be one of the richest and most productive in American literature.