Generation X

         coevals X is the most misunderstood generation to date. Douglas Coupland attempts to crystalize sense of what sense this generation has been left with. Due to senior high school expectations placed upon Generation X, commonly know as X-ers, by the successful Baby boomer generation. Couplands writings validate his generation (Generation X) and invalidates the Baby Boomers. Generation X, Shampoo Planet, and Microserfs were written to support the invalidating of the Baby Boomer Generations.

        Generation X, a brilliant portrayal of the group with no direction and no hope, tells a tale of three friends who be living the stereotypical Generation X lifestyle. Andy (main character), Dag, Claire be end friends who all work McJobs which is defined by Coupland as: [a] unhopeful-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, low-benefit, no-future undertaking in the service sector (Generation X, pg.5). They each are misunderstood by their parents and are seen as underachievers in a society that has it booming. It is easy for parents of the X-ers to believe this because all theyve know is origin. Rise in population, rise in American business, and rise in overall success. These eld all jobs are taken. The jobs out there are low paying and demeaning to overqualified applicants.



Left only to scrap by, it is non unusual for an X-er to feel Boomer Envy described as the envy of material wealth and long-range material security accrued by sometime(a) members of the baby boom generation by virtue of better off(predicate) births (Generation X, pg. 21). The fortunate thing is that X-ers have come to realize bullion is not the key to life and community and commitment are what one should work towards.

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        In keeping the same money isnt everything slogan, Coupland executes a novel modelled after young X-ers who work for the most the right way Baby Boomer of them all, Bill Gates. Microserfs...

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