Lostness refers to the disinterested and detached state of mind when it has no goal or aim to project upon. In this state
of mind, a person remains floating depending upon the gust of wind. He believes in enjoining only momentary things of life and
thereby evading his reality including the sense of transitoriness of life. Under this state of mind, a man’s existence is marked
more with unauthenticity and ‘bad faith’. Jake Barnes has lost much before the opening of the novel. The war has rendered him
sexually wounded and that causes his alienation from the society.
