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Cinderella Man is a film based on the rise of world champion boxer James Braddock. Braddock's life was heavily affected by the Great Depression and the film does well to show this. The film also does a good job of chronicling the life of the common man during the Great Depression. This essay aims to discuss the role of the stock market crash in the onset of the Great Depression, the effects of the depression on the life of the common man, and the effects of the depression on the life of James J Braddock and his family. There is no doubt that the stock market crash contributed to the Great Depression, but how? One of the ways the crash contributed to the depression was the loss of money it caused the average man. It is believed that on the first day of the accident, almost a billion dollars were lost, this took a large sum out of the pockets of the common man. Without this money people could not purchase the consumer goods on which the United States economy was based. Another way the crash contributed to the depression was the loss of confidence in the market. When t...