What is the allusion that Lee makes in the following passage?

"There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.

But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people:

Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself." From ''To kill a mocking bird''

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Carlee Ellis · Answer 1

lee used the allusion, "nothing to fear but fear itself" this quote was taken from Roosevelt's speech, therefore making it an allusion