Genre
Economic Book
Setting and Context
Set between 1929 and 1941. Written the context of the economy and the Great Depression.
Narrator and Point of View
Third-person narrative
Tone and Mood
Enlightening and sanguine
Protagonist and Antagonist
The central character is Herbert Hoover.
Major Conflict
American consumption drops, resulting in the economy's crash.
Climax
The climax comes when people can no longer afford their basic needs.
Foreshadowing
The cultural shift by the American people from possession of material things to embracing community support foreshadowed the financial melancholy that to the collapse of the economy.
Understatement
The impact of people’s purchasing power is understated.
Allusions
The story alludes to the factors that led to economic collapse in the United States of America.
Imagery
The imagery of reduced consumption depicts sight imagery that aids readers see the disparities between the rich and the poor.
Paradox
The main paradox is that the USA economy entirely depended on consumption. Consequently, it is satirical that a superpower economy could only rely on people's purchasing power.
Parallelism
There is parallelism between the impact of the Depression and the over-reliance on consumption.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
The economic collapse is personified as vicious.
