Silvia Todorova Assignment 1

An allusion in “Inventing My Parents” by Susan Ludvigson is when she say “Sinclair Lewis’s name comes up, and Kay Boyle’s, and then Fitzgerald’s.” All these writers wrote about activists after World War One. They were dissatisfied with the state America was after the war; they discussed and commented on politics in their writing. The characters in the poem talk about the war but don’t really discuss the negative effects that it brought to our country, they just mentioned it. The allusion in the poem comments on the lost generation, such as the characters, and how the war changed our cultures’ mind set.