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CONCLUSION


According to the core principles of Marxism, the findings of this thesis answer the core question: How did American authors represent poverty during the Depression Era. The novels present an accurate representation of both the sociological and psychological states of the American lower class during the Depression Era. The working class became subjects of an impoverished society because they had no control over the means of production. The proletariat and social reform authors studied in this thesis utilized literature to appeal for changes to the plight of the proletariats. All four authors demonstrated the desperate needs of the working class and their deplorable living conditions. The authors echoed the same outcry as a call for action from the bourgeoisie who controlled the means of production. They demonstrate the extreme poverty of the American lower class populace and the division between the bourgeoisie and the proletariats. According to Bressler (2011), “[i]n America, … the capitalists exploit the working classes, determining for them their salaries and their working conditions, among many other elements of their lives” (p. 176). The preceding Marxist literary critical analysis examined and exposed the failures in the ideologies of the dominant class. Although Le Sueur wrote her manuscript in 1930, the bourgeoisie refused to have it published because “[l]iterature is a particularly powerful tool for maintaining the social status quo [since] it operates under the guise of being entertainment, making it possible to influence an audience even when its members are unaware of being swayed” (Dobie, 2011, p. 4). As such, it took decades before the society at 83 large could read Le Sueur’s firsthand accounts of the experiences of many heroic women who suffered adversely from the electrical shock treatments administered by the relief organizations, and women who were discriminatorily misdiagnosed with psychological illnesses during the Depression Era. The proletariat authors penetrated the status quo using their novels to call for social action on behalf of the working class.