Read the excerpt from the song, “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”Say, don't you remember, they called me Al— It was Al all the time. Why don't you remember, I'm your pal— Buddy, can you spare a dime? The excerpt emphasizes the idea that the problems of the Great Depression

The speaker reminds someone, “I'm your pal,” but the person no longer recognizes or helps him, so he has to ask for a dime. This emphasizes how the Depression’s hardship and poverty strained relationships between people who had once been friends. The best answer is “drove a wedge between people who once were friendly.”

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