Anti-heroes characters in modernist fiction

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Those who have crossed

With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom

Remember us-if at all-not as lost

Violent souls, but only

As the hollow men

The stuffed me.

-T.S.Eliot, "The Hollow Men."

I remember that once I read The Hollow Men by T.S. Elliot and something that called my attention (in literature classes) was the fact that both Prufrock and The Hollow Men have anti-heroes characters.

To begin with, the hollow men speaking in the epigraph are not much different from Eliot's famous Prufrock; the inadequate modern was whose introspection, self-deprecation, and hesitation are all emblematic of a new heroism. The Hollow Men are spiritually and culturally lacking in the substance of traditional heroes. This lack of traditional heroism, what we can call "anti-heroism," is not modern. As an example we can found in the  seventeenth and eighteenth century literature. However, I was reading some articles and essays about this issue saying that modern anti-heroism in the early twentieth century is a response to the uncertainties of people about traditional values; it is a feature of modernism and its zeitgeist. With rapidly changing times and cultural upheavals, the human race questioned moral values. Coherent meanings were lost, and essences were devalued within atmosphere of cultural decline. Hence, people tried to find meaning in a confusing life, to construct a pattern, or to impose some order in a world they could neither control nor understand. When they could not heroically thrive in a mechanized age, they tried to live minimally and internally within the enclaves of art and the subjective mind.

So, guys, thus is my question for you: Do you think that modernity could affect men and women and, to some extend, affect a change in gender roles and expectation?