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For many people in America, anger, discontent, and disillusionment characterized the years immediately following World War One. Society was devastated by a global conflict that resulted in destruction and resentment. Survivors during this time period were labeled, “The Lost Generation.” During these times, literature emerged, attempting to capture the attention of this ‘generation.’ To many, the works of the most successful writers became a bible to those trying to recover by writing their stories. In search for a way to explain such misfortune, many writers turned to different point of views. One that began to be used was called naturalism. This writing style is defined as a technique of rendering artistic or literary subjects to reproduce natural appearances or actual events which contain a supernatural significance. (“Naturalism” 788.) This style was an explanation for authors to express their inner feelings through their writing. Their novels, at this, would become somewhat autobiographical. In The Sun Also Rises, a novel written by Ernest Hemingway, and The Grapes of Wrath, written by John Steinbeck, these two writers exhibit how fate is inevitably cruel through the actions of their characters, which in rea