> almost stoic in their description of hardship, death, joy, and pain Writers in the 1930’s remember a world before antibiotics, before vaccines, before a lot

> almost stoic in their description of hardship, death, joy, and pain Writers in the 1930’s remember a world before antibiotics, before vaccines, before a lot of things we take for granted. Death and suffering were a common part of life. WW1 was ~10 years ago, as was the spanish flu. Dying from tuberculosis was common. If you weren’t stoic about it all, I don’t think you could live life back then.