It means to be in low spirits due to loss of courage or hope. Brainliest plz!!!
I'm learning about this at school at the minute, I think it might be a metaphor, because a community can't actually be drenched in fear. It is not personification because it is not making anything that shouldn't be real, real.
Sorry if that didn't make sense, I'm just trying to get my point across of how I think that it is a metaphor. ☺
The 1920s were an age of dramatic social and political change. For the first time, more Americans lived in cities than on farms. The nation's total wealth more than doubled between 1920 and 1929, and this economic growth swept many Americans into an affluent but unfamiliar “consumer society