Walter Evan Analysis

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Walter Evan’s depiction of life and the people during the Depression of the 1920s is powerful, interesting, and despair.In the picture of South Street, New York these three words can be used to describe what is going on in the picture. Despair, all three of the men in the picture show despair the far left man probably just lost his job and is tired of looking for another job. The middle man has given up and feels abandoned. The far right man has probably been rejected from so many jobs that he just can’t continue to look at. Interested, the way that this picture becomes interesting is that every person in the picture is showing an emotion the person on the left is showing abandoned the way he is looking at the newspaper in he just looks devastated.

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