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Essay / Analysis of the portrait of the migrant mother by Dorothea Lange
A photo of a woman with her two children shows that not all families are stereotypical families with two parents and that responsibilities are distributed according to roles of gender. The tired eyes, wrinkled skin, and aging face illustrate the struggles a woman must face, physically and emotionally, for her family. This shows the individual value of being a woman, as she is not only the one who takes care of her children, but also the one who provides for their needs, which is usually a man's responsibility which she carries out, even if many men cannot support themselves. families because they lost everything they had. At that time, a woman was expected to stay with her children and make her home a refuge, but she was deprived of this ability by the necessity of becoming a migrant. The image suggests emotional responses with economy, as there were a few families during the Depression who had not been badly affected and who at least had a solid roof over their heads, food to eat, and clothing to protect them. This image illustrates a clear distinction of social class issues in the United States at that time, and "Migrant Mother" shows people what life is really like for a migrant worker from a poor family in times of crisis. This proves that the Depression was a systematic failure in the political, economic and social spheres, and that the poor pea pickers are suffering the consequences of something they did not cause. The picture of their living government shows that no political or economic aid was given to them by a failed government. The pea crop had frozen; there was no work. There was no possibility of prosperity and success, no possibility of social advancement for children, there was no land in which life was better and richer for everyone. It wasn't the American dream that everyone thought about growing up, as it was a crisis that left the entire