Read the excerpt from the song, “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”Once I built a tower, up to the sun, Brick, and rivet, and lime,Once I built a tower, Now it's done— Which reality of the Great Depression does the excerpt convey?

The speaker says he once built a tower but now that work is over, suggesting he has lost his job. Many workers became unemployed during the Great Depression as businesses cut back or closed. The excerpt therefore conveys increased unemployment, choice C.

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