Tobacco Road Sparknotes

Tobacco Road is a novel that was written by Erskine Caldwell in 1932. The book was published in 1995 by Brown Thrasher Books in Athens, Georgia. Erskine Caldwell’s goal when writing Tobacco Road can be explained through the knowledge of the Great Depression. According to History.com, The Great Depression happened between the years of 1929 and 1939 and the outcome of the Great Depression was “consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output and rising levels of unemployment.” There seem to be no middle-class in the book or in the Great Depression, there was a community of people who were dirt-poor or there were those people who were rich of that time. Caldwell wanted to portray the concept of the Great Depression …show more content…
Dude says to Lov, “I reckon I’ll get me a mule somewhere and some seed-cotton and guano, and grow me a crop of cotton this year, it feels like it’s going to be a good year for cotton. Maybe I could grow me a bale to the acre, like Pa was always talking about doing.” The statement that Dude makes describe to the reader how everyone thought in the community that could not even afford a stale cracker. These underprivileged people had full of hope, but did not seem to carry out their hopes and dreams. Sometimes, like Jeeter and Ada, their death would become before they ever could fulfill their hopes and …show more content…
However, with God, it seems that he was misguided from the teachings of the Bible. He gave the character’s quotes that could have only been said because he shared what he believed to the reader. According to Jeeter, “I ain’t no sinner by nature.” Later on Bessie said, “but it seemed to her that God ought to have taken better care of it, especially after she had stopped and prayed about it when she bought the automobile that morning in Fuller”. Then Bessie said, “Good preachers don’t preach about God and heaven, and things like that. They always preach against something, like hell and the devil. Them is things to be against. It wouldn’t do a preacher no good to preach for God. He’s got to preach against the devil and all wicked and sinful things. That’s what the people like to hear about. They want to hear about the bad things.” This could explain why Caldwell gave the people hope, but nothing would ever get accomplished. These views on God made God look like we were the Father and He was the child, that he should do everything that we say because we know