The Great Depression was one of the most wrenching events in American history. It affected much of the world, though it was manifested in different ways in different countries. In the U.S., artists and writers used the occasion to express a sense of the life of the people, the spirit of the nation, and the depth of the problems facing the country. American confidence was shaken by the crisis, but as the editor notes, that the cynicism of the age was less evident in the works of writers and artists. The fiction written during the Depression reflected the anxieties of the age and did so in a way that communicates with us today more directly than does historical writing because fiction is from the heart, it is written about characters who are living the experience, and it offers a voice directly from the time an
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