... socialism at the book's closure. While this technique helps the author to achieve his ultimate political espousal of socialism, Jurgis remains an everyman, a type, rather than an individual character with depth and development. Jurgis plays the role of the everyman- he embodies the struggles of the proletariat who is exploited by capitalism- these struggles range from being laid off, injured on the ... with characters like comrade Hinds and Ostrinski, Jurgis his helped to understand the system of capitalist his has fallen prey to, and which he can combat with the right socialist literat...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate