Life — November 27, 1931 — page 5: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "What To Do With The Wolf At The Door" This four-panel comic satirizes responses to economic hardship. The sequence shows a man confronting a threatening wolf (representing poverty/financial crisis) outside a small house: **Panel 1-2:** The man tries to fight the wolf off with increasingly desperate measures. **Panel 3:** He attempts to ignore it through distraction (shown bathing). **Panel 4:** He opens a "Hot Dogs" stand, suggesting entrepreneurial escape from poverty. The accompanying text references the Great Depression's aftermath with dark humor—joking that Herbert Hoover wanted to become a Democrat because it's "almost too late now," and mocking political responses to economic suffering. The overall message critiques inadequate solutions to widespread want during this economically turbulent period.