How was Yip Harburg's attitude about the Great Depression similar to or different from the attitudes of most people at the time? Use details from the interview to support your answer

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Delilah Shields

20 January, 20:28

How was Yip Harburg's attitude about the Great Depression similar to or different from the attitudes of most people at the time? Use details from the interview to support your answer

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Walker Weiss · Answer 1

By being able to develop his creative talents, he profited from the Depression while many other suffered.

Yip Harburg wrote the song, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime" together with Jay Gorney. The song was inspired by the Great Depression.

"I didn't want a song to depress people. I wanted to write a song to make people think. It isn't a hand-me-out song of 'give me a dime, I'm starving, I'm bitter', it wasn't that kind of sentimentality" - Jay Gorney's answer in an interview.