When i lost my possessions, i found my creativity. i felt i was being born for the first time. so for me the world became beautiful. with the crash, i realized that the greatest fantasy of all was business. the only realistic way of making a living was versifying. living off your imagination. based on the excerpt, which best describes harburg’s view of the great depression?

He values artistic success over financial success for himself.

Harburg describes the terrible experience of experiencing the Great Depression of the 1930s, the greatest economic crisis in history that has led to bankruptcies, companies, material losses of families and the decline of American income as a whole.

However, Harburg is able to describe a positive lesson in losing all of his assets during the crisis. He knew another world, a world he probably would not have known if he had not lost everything in the crisis. It is the world of literature, an art that became a new way of earning a living, but for which he fell in love.

i think that the major difference is that it used to be modern