Though her personal troubles may account for some of the changes, however, they do not tell the full story. The circumstances of American revivalism in the midst of the grim realities of the Depression and the World Wars changed, too. In the 1930s, the hope and optimism that had permeated McPherson’s triumphant years seemed to some to be jarring, inappropriate, out of touch. Sister’s sudden death in Oakland in October 1944, like much of her life, raised troubling questions. The coroner listed a drug