Reflection Of The Movie Cinderella Man

The movie “Cinderella Man” portrays how families during the Great Depression had to live and all the hardships they faced. For example James J. Braddock and his family. While the family is having dinner one evening James and Mae’s daughter Rosemarie asked for more because she was still hungry Mae was not able to give her more because they did not have much and had to save some for her boys to also eat. Jimmy comes up with this story about how he had steak with a bunch of celebrities and that he was full so he was able to give his half of his food to his daughter. He knew he had to do whatever it took to take care of his family. Mae also has to water down the milk in order to get as much use out of it as possible. There are also more real

In fact he says working at the dock was actually worse than a wrestling match. When you watching the movie you can notice from early on that James’ wife Mae is very against the idea of her husband fighting but knows that is something he has to do because there are not many other options on ways to get the money they need for their family. The movie shows how there were people who were in even worse off situations than James and his family such as those that live in Hooverville’s Those “shantytowns” were more horrible than the places others lived. Those were the people who had some of the worst due to the Great Depression. The movie also shows how the rich live and how they are not as greatly affected by the Great Depression compared to those that are poor. It showed their living arrangements which were in very nice apartments. Those people had the best of it all considering how much others were affected so greatly by the Great Depression. Eventually James turned to some those people for help with money because he was desperate. He did anything he could to help his