What are the defining features of Modernism in American literature, and which two authors’ works illustrate fragmentation and disillusionment?

• A. Fragmentation, stream of consciousness, nonlinear time, and disillusionment after WWI; Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
• B. Romantic idealism, ornate diction, linear chronology; Moby-Dick and The Scarlet Letter.
• C. Naturalism, determinism, gritty realism; The Grapes of Wrath and The Sun Also Rises.
• D. Postmodern metafiction, epistemic doubt, ironic reversal; Gravity's Rainbow and Slaughterhouse-Five.

Answer: (A)