The Jungle | Characters
The Jungle chronicles the American dream as experienced by the Lithuanian immigrant family of Jurgis Rudkus. At first admiring of the capitalistic system and confident of his ability to use it to the fulfillment of the American dream, Jurgis is made to realize by a series of tragedies that if there is control in human existence, it rests not with the individual but with an economic system directed by a very few. This discovery finally leads Jurgis to the socialist movement and a new sense of hope. Sinclair, with a journalist's eye for precise detail, quite explicitly depicts the...
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