Which statements best describe literature and music of the 1930s? Check all that apply.Many songs discussed hope for happy times in the future.People’s interest in radio declined.Literary works often focused on the working class.Music told sad stories that reflected Americans’ lives.Life in the upper class was literature’s most common theme.John Steinbeck wrote a famous novel about migrant workers.

During the Great Depression, songs often offered hope for better times, while other music reflected the hardship and sadness many Americans experienced. Literature frequently focused on working-class people and their struggles; John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, for example, follows a family of migrant workers. Radio became more popular, not less, and upper-class life was not literature’s most common theme.

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