The Great
Depression has hit the town of Maycomb hard. It has also hit the people of the town hard.
Maycomb is mostly made up of farmers, therefore the whole town is affected by theof the stock
market crash. Most people in Maycomb work off the land, and when these people had no money, it
was difficult for them to pay for other services. In chapter one,describes how the town has been
affected.
There was no hurry, for there nowhere to go,
nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb
County.
Scout even asksif they were poor and Atticus
tells her that they were and they were just as poor as the Cunninghams.
Atticus said professional people were poor because the farmers were
poor. As Maycomb County was farm county, nickles and dimes were hard to come by for doctors and
dentists and lawyers.
Most of the people in Maycomb had
to take jobs as day laborers, this meant that they had to find jobs to do by the day and hope
there was enough work for them. This is what Tom Robinson did. His willingness to work and take
care of his family, led him to make a tragic error in judgement and eventually it cost him his
life. The Ewell family, however, were poor and would always be poor. The economy had no affect
on them. No matter the change that was brought on by the Great Depression, Bob Ewell and his
family were exactly the same and would be. They were hard at heart and had no compassion for
anyone else.
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