Where can the impact of the Great Depression be seen in To Kill a Mockingbird?

In Chapter 1, Scout (the first-person narrator), talks about what it was like to live in Maycomb when she was a child. Everyone seemed to move slowly; no one was in a hurry. There was "nowhere to go, nothing to buy, and no money to buy it with" (6). People were vaguely optimistic, though; they'd recently been told that they had "nothing to fear but fear itself," meaning Franklin Delano Roosevelt had just taken office, which would place the setting of this novel around 1933.

Another way we can see the effects of the Great Depression on Maycomb is how people pay Atticus and the doctor for their services. Most people don't have money, so they trade what they do have--chickens, eggs, sacks of flour and nuts--until the debt is considered paid.