Generation X is the most misunderstood generation to date. Douglas Coupland attempts to make sense of what sense this generation has been left with. Due to high 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 …showed first 75 words of 1583 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1583 total…reflect on it is getting lost.' (Coupland, Wired, 95). It is this type of argument that should be taken into account by both generations and used for focus on the struggles' of the generations. Although, the struggle should not be between the 'X-ers' and the Boomers to cement the generation gap, but the struggle should be for the two generations to work together to end the finger-pointing and repair the damage that has been done.