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   Growing up was very difficult because Mary’s childhood was during the Great Depression.  It was also hard for Mary’s family because at that time everyone was poor. Everyone became poor because of the stock market crash, which happened on October 27^th, 1929. On this date, she was also only six years old. When Franklin D. Roosevelt became president in 1933, the unemployment rate went up from eight million to fifteen million. The Great Depression affected, not just America, but the rest of the world too (“ELRO”).  Even when Mary was in her early years of childhood, she was able to care for something. For example, she would eat a dinner of bread and butter, so that her family would also have something to eat.  Mary knew, at the age of six, that her family wasn’t able to afford much. However, being a child, Mary didn’t understand much of what was happening, and other than what her father told her. Her father always provided her with some type of food to eat and clothes to wear. She had her basic necessities, so she didn’t ask for anything more. Towards the later years of the Great Depression and her teenage years, she also took on a job to make extra cash for the family. Overall, the Great Depression made her have a limited childhood.