What was the general feeling about the american dream amoung members of the lost generation

"night. no one was praying for the night to pass quickly. the stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes." explain the images included in the passage. how is the use of the image of night contradictory to how we might expect it to be used

Someone is calling us.(passive voice)

What is being said in the prologue? what is being foreshadowed? in romeo and juliet?