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This was absolutely heart breaking to read. The images popped from the pages and really made these women become real and human. It is hard to understand the devestating effects the Depression had, and I think too often people look at the statistics (which are staggering and upsetting) but dont always stop and think about what really was going on. People were not sitting around passively going through the Depressio, they were lining up in hords to sit and wait hour after hour for, sometimes, months in hopes of any job opening up at all. LeSueur did an excellent job of being able to capture this feeling off deflated hope considering she was living it too, there was insight that can only be gained by seeing someone day in and day out desperate and needing that she was able to record in a manner that is heartbreaking. --jmarshal | This was absolutely heart breaking to read. The images popped from the pages and really made these women become real and human. It is hard to understand the devestating effects the Depression had, and I think too often people look at the statistics (which are staggering and upsetting) but dont always stop and think about what really was going on. People were not sitting around passively going through the Depressio, they were lining up in hords to sit and wait hour after hour for, sometimes, months in hopes of any job opening up at all. LeSueur did an excellent job of being able to capture this feeling off deflated hope considering she was living it too, there was insight that can only be gained by seeing someone day in and day out desperate and needing that she was able to record in a manner that is heartbreaking. --jmarshal | ||
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| + | I think the most compelling part of this story was when the author described the breakdown of a young woman the previous day that escalated into a fight with the woman in charge of trying to find jobs for all of these desperate women. Both women are in a state of absolute desperation although one has a job she too faces bleak despair every day. The young woman has come to the agency everyday for 8 months in hope of finding a job and the other is forced to try and find jobs for hundreds of women when there aren't any to be had. It was heartbreaking for the other women to observe that now the only thing left for this woman is to go to the streets and turn to prostitution.--Emma Peck | ||
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