In the 1930s, the Great Depression hit America hard, and affected everybody in severe, and unimaginable ways. A perfect example of how the great depression affected families is the movie Cinderella man. In this motion picture, a fathers job is a professional fighter. In the year 1928, on November 30th, he won a fight and made $8,860 in a single night. Shortly after the fight he returns home, to which the scene cuts out on a picture of his cabinet, which on top had large sums of cash, and lots of jewelry. Then the movie goes a few years into the future. In 1933, Jimmy, the father, is now extremely poor. Fights only pay $30, and that's if he wins. His family lives in a one bedroom, with 4 children. Unable to pay for electricity, which is only a $19 bill, he has to send his kids away. All of his money that he had saved from past fights where he won thousands was invested into a company in the stock market that had took a really bad downfall, causing him to lose all of his money. At the time, many people lived in Hoover Ville's, which were shacks inside parks all huddled together, where the poorest of the poor lived. The way these people lived was on desperation, and minimal amounts of hope.
The separation of the upper and lower class was also growing. If you were rich, you got richer. If you were poor, you became poorer. In the movie, Jimmy's manager was also a close friend of his. one thing that this man did was always appear to be well off, which we later found out that he had to sell everything he had in order to keep his image. The effects on the social classes was a major influence on the later progressions of men and women in these classes. In all of these troubles, men became very stressed out and drank more than usual. This drove families and fiends apart, making everyone have enemies. Men also had to compete for jobs each day. The social aspect of life was also extremely affected by this, and forever influenced by what happened.
