Read the father’s dialogue. what reveals the uniqueness of his speech?

"my daughter, your father, he love you very much," he explained from the bottom of the stairs. "he just want to protect you."

–"daughter of invention,"
julia alvarez

The great depression, which lasted throughout the 1930s in the united states, affected many people, and it had a devastating impact on an entire subset of the u.s. population. modernist writer john steinbeck wrote about the toll the depression took on these families, many of whom were forced to leave their farms and find other sources of income.