INTRODUCTION t the tum of the twentieth century the notion of time became radicalized. ntion and implementation of new means of transportation made travel quick and effi around the world by boat train, plane, and automobile bling people d spread of new media in print, film, and radio made information travel at an unfore ed the rise of and teehnologies led people to empartmentalize dules, movement, and communication These drastic changes in modern Americar ght about new perceptions concerning the concept of time and experience W writesi''Multiplicity, diversity, complexity, anarchy and chaos could...be mag defining rubrics quross the contemporaneous fields of culture, acsthetics, and politic n age, they aptly describe the social experience of the new ma ing together in the cosmopolitan urban centers of modern American big city life" his wave of change at the dawn of the century, the idea of time as a chronolo th clear rut instances is dismantled and a new paradigm emerges: time, mer on xperience as a heterogeneous whole. French philosopher Henri Bergson introduced the concept of time as intersec of consciousness and being that form an organic whole. From Bergson's extr f the idea of time where chronological order is de-stabilized and"state ousness, even when successive, permeate one another" (TFW 98), the ideas of men perience were liberated from the constraints of linear separation. Writers reacte ovel ideas, and Paul ass writes that many of American modemiss the indebted to Bergson's theory of time, including Fitzgerald, Eliot, Frost, Cather, s Miller, and Faulkner(2). From Bergson's theories, many American modernist wr ed in radical ways through their texts. Katie Moss writes, "They lmodernises the structure in order to capture their fragmented personal react The a resolution to their internal conflicts. They wanted realism, but