Read the excerpt from the interview with e. y. (yip) harburg. 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 has no interest in financial success for himself. he values artistic success over financial success for himself. he believes most people benefited from losing their financial stability. he regrets the fact that he gave away his money to benefit his art.

But this, but you – small, pitiful and twiggy – you put me down with wine, you blinded me. come back, odysseus, and i'll treat you well, praying the god of earthquake to befriend you – his son i am, for he by his avowal fathered me, and, if he will, he may heal me of this black wound – he and no other of all the happy gods or mortal men.' few words i shouted in reply to him: 'if i could take your life i would and take your time away, and hurl you down to hell! the god of earthquake could not heal you there! ' at this he stretched his hands out in his darkness toward the sky of stars, and prayed poseidon: 'o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if i am thine indeed, and thou art father: grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home -the odyssey, homer what motivates cyclops to ask poseidon to interfere with odysseus's journey home?