s;t know any better. At the beginning there was slight signs of corruption, like not leaving money to pay for the wedding feast. During the story the family has been subject to swindles, grafts, manipulation, and rape. The working conditions in the winter were horrible with no heat, and the wife's supervisor ran a prostitution ring, which she made the girl workers prostitutes. At the end of the story Jurgis changed a lot for the strong, young man he used to be, to ruined health by is experiences, he turned into a mugger, strikebreaker, and an agent in a political vote-buying scheme. Sinclair uses their story t
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