1. The New Deal
Yonnondio is set in the twenties; however, Tillie Olsen describes this book as "a novel of the 1930's" because this prose is a forum to address political and social conditions of the thirties. Further, the work is semi-autobiographical about working class family struggles and economic woes of the twenties, which culminate into the Depression of the thirties. Yonnondio is a complex text about Olsen's family, the Holbrooks, and the policies that impacted every family in 1930's America. ... Yonnondio goes beyond telling one family's story of the 1920's to espouse Olsen...
First, there is a great deal of individual freedom in the decision making process. ... At the beginning of the depression period, governments didn't see their role as one for the influencing business conditions. ... The government has taken steps to see that the economic depression that took place in the 1930's never happens again. ...