Lizabeths Childhood In The 1930's By Alice Collier

In the short story, Collier portrays the image of Lizabeth’s childhood as extremely difficult to help the reader understand society in the 1930’s. In paragraph 3 she describes Lizabeth’s childhood as “...futile waiting was the sorrowful background music of our impoverished little community when I was young.” (Collier par. 3) Throughout a majority of Lizabeth’s childhood, she was waiting for the opportunity to get obtain the thing she desired most: money. Americans would offer “... one's sweat in return for some meager share of bread.”(Collier par. 3) even though they worked as much and as hard as the could it was never enough. Their clothes were “...torn our already raggedy clothes” (Collier par. 16), they were malnourished “...thin legs…”