Soon afterward, banks all over the country collapsed like dominoes. The Depression was precipitated by the stock market crash of October 29, 1929, also referred to as “Black Monday.” Two weeks after the crash, the value of stocks declined by more than 37 percent. In “A Christmas Memory” the Great Depression has taken its toll Buddy and his friend fantasize about giving each other the expensive presents that they are too poor to buy. Events in History at the Time the Short Story Takes Place The South during the Depression Capote’s “A Christmas Memory,” a short story so renowned that it has been published individually, pays homage to the pleasure and excitement Sook’s holiday rituals brought her young cousin. Sook exerted a formidable influence on Capote, and her eccentric mannerisms and childlike innocence inspired many of his short stories. He spent the bulk of his time with his favorite cousin, Sook Faulk.
Truman Capote, virtually abandoned by his mother as a child, was raised during the Depression of the 1930s by distant cousins in a small Alabama town called Monroeville. A short story set in Alabama during the Depression (early 1930s) published in 1956.Ī young man remembers the last Christmas he spent with his closest relative.Įvents in History at the Time the Short Story Takes PlaceĮvents in History at the Time the Short Story Was Written
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