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Depression Narratives Intertwined



During the 1930’s, the United States suffered through a severe economic depression. Ubiquitously people lost their savings, homes, and means of earning a living. Poor Farming practices had depleted the soil, and it became less capable of supporting the individual families who farmed their small sections of it. The small farmers, now tenants and sharecroppers, were uprooted from the homes and farms which had belonged to their families for many years. Work was scarce, wages were low, and they were resented, resisted, and repressed by the upper class. Their attempts to better their lives were branded as Communism, a system much disliked and feared by many Americans of the time. This essay will discuss elements that distinguish and exist in a “Depression Narrative� such as conflicts and social formations that appear in the following works: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Uncle Tom’s Children by Richard Wright, and Waiting......

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