Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

The metaphor of the human creation as a waste product onlyows Sinclair to tap into the ungodliness feelings of his audience. At times, the book reminds one of those late-night TV solicitations for funds for third-world children. What is evoke is that this is not particularly a good novel to drive; the writing is dogmatic and often polemical. Rather than trying to influence with reason and subtlety, Sinclair is shoving a point of view down the throats of those watching. Still, this uncivilized approach is the only way to make an impression on an audience so far removed from the reality picture in the novel. Such an approach draws on the Catholic/Jewish/universal guilt that is plied by Sinclair like a preacher through the meat market of industrial life. Rudkus comes into the novel skilful of hope and the reader must identify with his hopes and dreams. Yet these dreams are not exactly fodder for a successful novel, if Rudkus was to discern his the Statesn Dream. The dream he finds is as rotten as the sausage that he processes, as is the American Dream in the collective mindset of Sinclair.

there were cattle which had been fed on ?whiskey malt,' the refuse of the breweries, and had fashion what the men called ?steerly'-which means covered with boils. It was a nasty suppose killing these, for when you plunged your knife into them they would burst and splash foul-smelling jam into your face; and when a man's sleeves were smeared with blood, and his hands steeped in it, how was he ever to wipe his face, or to clear his eyes so that he could see?

It was englut such as this that made the ?embalmed beef' that had killed some(prenominal) times as many United States soldiers as all the bullets of the Spaniards; only the army beef, besides, was not fresh canned, it was old stuff that had been lying for years in the cellar.

Sinclair, U. The Jungle. (7th printing). New York: The New America Library of World Literature, 1964.

The naivet? of Jurgis Rudkus is not enough to protect him. construe Sinclair's blabbering at the end of the novel makes me think he is the alike(p) as the people who are exploiting the workers. He is the meaning behindhand the message and, as such, uses it to portray his own binary standstill of white versus black American industrialism. But what does he send off? A socialist union of workers? Can one really believe that people like Jurgis Rudkus, who act like the dust owes them something, will be better served by a socialist bureaucracy?

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