Jurgis poor reputation from being an immigrant in America jilted his wages and was cut numerous times. After giving birth to his son, Jurgis was overwhelmed by his new role in his family. Although, Jurgis’s new role prevented him from seeing his son very much and Ona was required to return to work one week after giving birth. Sinclair describes the harsh conditions of what capitalism is doing to the unwillingness of a new beginning in America. The idea that illustrates the precarious existence of wage labors and the financial burden it as caused. Sinclair portrays Jurgis and his family by the conditions of life for them and the need for survival is crumbling down. The capitalists of the Chicago are evolving the economic struggle and the idea that only the strongest can survive. It is easy to understand the demonstrated Social Darwinism that is taking place in this fiction. Jurgis’s attitude for wanting to survive only lasts so long and soon Jurgis won’t be able to survive. With this era, within the capitalist system, Jurgis, and his family are burden by the amount of wish to …show more content…
Jurgis was overwhelmed with his new acquaintance and supernatural experience. “It was like encountering an inhabitant of the fourth dimension of space, a being who was free from all one’s own limitations” (Sinclair 227-228). It becomes prominent in Jurgis’s attitude and sudden change in tone of the book. The fully curable tactic of the idea that America can be embraced by the exploitation of the working class. The land of America should give equal opportunity to those who are willing to work for it. At the beginning of “The Jungle”, Jurgis dismissed the idea of the capitalist environment of America. By the end of “The Jungle”, it stumbles into the idea of acceptance for Jurgis and his willingness to change his knowledgeable inquiry of his new founding belief. This whole idea of socialism helps Jurgis find the possibility to succeed in life and overcome the struggles he had encountered. For the first time, Jurgis is willing to listen and embrace the message of