Entertainment
Entertainment In Depression
Have you ever wondered what life was like during the “Great Depression” John Steinbeck gives us a great look at this time period in his novel, Of Mice and Men . No matter what the circumstances, people still need to be entertained.
Although the 1930s was a time of great hardship, people still found ways to have fun. For many during these years, having fun didn’t have to cost much. Everything was homemade – the food, the games, the music
Even during “Hard Times” and wartime, people need to be entertained. The American people in the 1930s and 1940s were no exception.
The Great Depression is not the first period most writers would choose as a setting for their comic novel. The name’s all wrong. Kind of… depressing. And yet, Will Ferguson chose this very era as the backdrop for his latest novel, Spanish Fly (Viking Canada, 393 pp.). The fact that he thought he could pull it off, and has succeeded so admirably, speaks to the subject of the novel itself: confidence.
