In that time period, many people became jobless and homeless. The harsh economic condition brought hunger for many people. In the book, “Dear Mrs. Roosevelt”, the writer says about that time period “Children and teens were among the most economically, educationally, and psychologically vulnerable to the ravages of the Depression” (Cohen 18). In the story, the narrator had a terrible condition in raising her daughter under extreme poverty, brought by the great depression. The Work Progress Administration (WPA) provided her and other helpless people work rather than financial help to them. The support less narrator couldn’t play a good role as a mother as she was the victim of uncontrollable social forces. In the story, she said that her realization came late, otherwise she could raise her daughter in a better way. But playing a perfect mother role, when she herself was enduring a lot of problems, was actually not that much easy. So, indirectly the great depression years are responsible to make Emily a difficult
In that time period, many people became jobless and homeless. The harsh economic condition brought hunger for many people. In the book, “Dear Mrs. Roosevelt”, the writer says about that time period “Children and teens were among the most economically, educationally, and psychologically vulnerable to the ravages of the Depression” (Cohen 18). In the story, the narrator had a terrible condition in raising her daughter under extreme poverty, brought by the great depression. The Work Progress Administration (WPA) provided her and other helpless people work rather than financial help to them. The support less narrator couldn’t play a good role as a mother as she was the victim of uncontrollable social forces. In the story, she said that her realization came late, otherwise she could raise her daughter in a better way. But playing a perfect mother role, when she herself was enduring a lot of problems, was actually not that much easy. So, indirectly the great depression years are responsible to make Emily a difficult