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The Great Depression
 Setting of The Glass Menagerie
(slightly before the beginning of
WW II).
 The Great Depression was an
economic slump in North
America, Europe, and other
industrialized areas of the world.
 Began in 1929 and lasted until
about 1939.
 Unemployment, homelessness,
banks closed, Dust Bowl, etc.
World War II
 Most important event of the early
1940s
 The Glass Menagerie was written
before the end of the war
 Williams references actual events
that took place (allusions)