Significance Of The Great Depression In To Kill A Mockingbird

Maycomb was a “tired old town...there was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see...” This book takes place during a terrible time for America called the Great Depression. Everyone had money invested into something and when the stock market crashed all of the invested into that was gone and all the money in land became worth nothing. Everything people owned became worthless, everything worth something was now worth nothing. Even the richest families became poor. Even though Maycomb, Alabama was not a real place it described the way other cities were like. Since Harper Lee grew up during the great depression and her To Kill a Mockingbird book takes place during that time, it is a fairly accurate representation of the United States more specifically the South in Alabama. Even though the time is sad the book is still humorous and you can assume that even though it was a bad time for people, they still made the most of it and got through the depression whether it be playing baseball, going to school, or dancing.
was affected was very poor not just the South. Thought it was more evident in the South because they were less urbanized and there were less jobs. The North had factories and businesses, the South was mainly composed of farms and with a drought they couldn’t produce crops and there was no work. Every state was hit hard by the great depression but Alabama was arguably hit the hardest. The stock market is seen as the start of the great depression by most people, but Alabama had already been in an agricultural slump and the stock market crash sent those who had not been in poverty to poverty. Also the South was still recovering from the devastating Civil