Exemplification Essay Walker Evans’s depiction of life and the people during the Depression of the 1930’s is forlorn, pessimistic, and defeated. A significant example of this is demonstrated in Mr. Evan’s “South Street, New York”, where he has photographed three men lounging around in front of a building. The mood of this photograph can only be described as forlorn, with the men appearing to be homeless because they are lying and sitting on cardboard and newspaper, which is commonly associated with homelessness. It could be said that it is pessimistic, because of the expression on the man in the far right's face, where he is staring dejectedly off into the distance, as though he is being tormented by perturbing thoughts. Some could also claim
