as able to during the war. “ Now we’d have money to buy shoes and a dress and pay rent and get some food on the table. We were just happy to have work (108).” These women exemplify the turn around from the peacetime to wartime atmosphere on the home front. The depression had repressed them to poverty like living conditions. The war had enabled them to have what would be luxury as compared to life before.As women began to enter the male work force and achieve pride and an income, they became oblivious to the war that was destructing the other side of the world. They were either like Peggy Terry, who didn’t even know a war was occurring. “You won’t believe how incredibly ignorant I was. I knew vaguely that a war had started, but I had no idea what it meant (108).” Or they were so happy to be in the position that they war had left them in financially, that they simply wanted it to continue. Peggy Terry remember a woman telling her that, ‘she hoped the war didn’t end until she got her refrigerator paid for (112).’ Killingsworth also contributes to the unmindfulness that was associated towards the war, “So right away they started hirin’. I think the war had kind of a pleasure. People didn’t realize the seriousness of the war. All they were thinkin’ about is they had lived in these Depression days. It was hard to come by a dollar (116).” Dellie Hahne was a college student at the time, she was in the same position as these other women, she recognized the war but the advantages that were available overshadowed the real casualties of the war occurring (117). “While my conscience told me the war was a terrible thing, bloodshed and misery, there was excitement in the air. I had just left college and was working as a substitute teacher. Life was fairly dull. Suddenly, single women were of tremendous importance (117).” The idea o...
