Question

How was Yip Harburg’s attitude about the Great Depression similar to or different from the attitudes of most people at the time? Use details from the interview to support your answer.

Answer 1

Answer:

Yip Harburg was able to develop his creative talent and gained from the great depression while the others suffered.

Explanation:

Yip Harburg develop his creative talents and profited from the depression while other people suffered, he wrote a song titled "Brother, can you spare a Dime" which was inspired by the great depression, it is co written with Jay Gomey.

The details in the interview is that he is of the opinion that, he wrote the song to make people think, in his words he said "it is not a hand m-me-out song of 'give me a dime, i'm starving, i'm bitter, it was not that kind of sentimentality".

The able-bodied men Harburg saw begging for money and also standing in bread lines in the streets of New York led him to write the song "Brother, can you spare a Dime".