Choose the detail that best supports the idea that the
family was worried they would be rejected.
The eye examination was rigorous
There were too many children.
The children were too young
They were there for three days.

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.