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This piece really struck me - the despair, the utter hopelessness of these women's lives. But despite everything, many retained their pride, mending their stockings, hiding away in condemned apartments, refusing charity and public displays of poverty. When the author mentioned the one woman who finally broke, it made me think, most of these single women endured starvation and extreme poverty but continued to sit in that office daily waiting for a job that would never come - how strong they were. But somehow, many of these women made it through the Depression - somehow they survived, which really shows the strength of the human condition.~Juliann Boyles | This piece really struck me - the despair, the utter hopelessness of these women's lives. But despite everything, many retained their pride, mending their stockings, hiding away in condemned apartments, refusing charity and public displays of poverty. When the author mentioned the one woman who finally broke, it made me think, most of these single women endured starvation and extreme poverty but continued to sit in that office daily waiting for a job that would never come - how strong they were. But somehow, many of these women made it through the Depression - somehow they survived, which really shows the strength of the human condition.~Juliann Boyles | ||
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| + | This piece was so incredible because I got a true sense of the despair of life during the Depression. The images were so vivid: living in condemned apartments, Mrs. Grey, sitting every day at the employment bureau. It emphasized how these women struggled to support their families in such a hopeless time. -Kendall Haring | ||
== Ann Marie Low's "The Dust Bowl" == | == Ann Marie Low's "The Dust Bowl" == | ||
