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Jurgis works in the steel mill but becomes a tramp after baby Antanas drowns.
Chapter 20Back in Chicago, Jurgis experiences various setbacks, then becomes Jack Duane's partner in crime.
Chapter 25Workers at the beef plants strike; Jurgis is made foreman before attacking Connor again.
Chapter 26Jurgis is reunited with Marija and the rest of his family; he discovers socialism.
Chapter 27| Chapter | Summary |
|---|---|
| Chapter 1 | The novel opens with scenes of an immigrant wedding reception in the Chicago meatpacking district during the early 1900s... Read More |
| Chapter 2 | The novel flashes back to when Jurgis and his family were still in Lithuania. Jurgis had been a hard-working farm boy, s... Read More |
| Chapter 3 | As the delicatessen owner, Jokubas has enough connections in town to find work for Jonas and old Antanas. Jurgis lines u... Read More |
| Chapter 4 | Jonas happily begins his new job at the meatpacking plant. His job is to use a heavy broom to sweep the "smoking entrail... Read More |
| Chapter 5 | The family spends every waking moment planning its move into the new house. They have only three days from when they sig... Read More |
| Chapter 6 | Because they are so in love, Jurgis and Ona are eager to get married even though they don't have any money for the recep... Read More |
| Chapter 7 | Jurgis and Ona's wedding reception has left them $100 in debt. As a result, Jurgis begins his disillusionment with Ameri... Read More |
| Chapter 8 | Despite the brutal winter, Marija finds happiness when she falls in love with Tamoszius Kuszleika, the fiddle player fro... Read More |
| Chapter 9 | One of the immediate benefits of joining the union is that a man arranges for Jurgis to get his American citizenship. He... Read More |
| Chapter 10 | Spring arrives but the family is barely scraping by. Marija has given up hope of getting married because she knows she c... Read More |
| Chapter 11 | Marija finds a job as a beef trimmer in a canning factory. She is able to begin saving again, and once again begins drea... Read More |
| Chapter 12 | After three weeks, Jurgis attempts to return to work, but the pain in his ankle is excruciating. He finally calls a doct... Read More |
| Chapter 13 | Jurgis continues to search for work, knocking on every door in Packingtown, twice. When he realizes he has no other opti... Read More |
| Chapter 14 | This chapter summarizes many of the disgusting meat-packing practices that were commonplace at the time of the novel's p... Read More |
| Chapter 15 | Ona's fits of hysteria continue, and Jurgis begins to wonder what is causing them. When he looks at her, he no longer se... Read More |
| Chapter 16 | Jurgis lies in his jail cell and considers the actions that put him here. At first, he feels proud to have gotten the be... Read More |
| Chapter 17 | The next morning, Jurgis meets his cellmate, a "cracksman" named Jack Duane. Jurgis is immediately enamored with Duane b... Read More |
| Chapter 18 | Released from prison, Jurgis has only the clothes on his back. It is raining and the streets are full of slush, but Jurg... Read More |
| Chapter 19 | Jurgis rushes down the street to the house of Madame Haupt, the Dutch midwife. He bounds up the stairs and bangs breathl... Read More |
| Chapter 20 | After a few days drinking his sorrows away, Jurgis returns home, mournful that he has spent his family's money while the... Read More |
| Chapter 21 | Once again desperate and destitute, Jurgis returns to prowling the streets in search of any work. The children bring him... Read More |
| Chapter 22 | Devastated and furious over little Antanas's death, Jurgis turns away from his family without a word and walks away. He ... Read More |
| Chapter 23 | Hoping to beat the rush of homeless men returning to the city in search of winter work, Jurgis returns to Chicago in the... Read More |
| Chapter 24 | While begging one evening, Jurgis has a chance encounter with Frederick Jones, the son of the factory owner Jurgis once ... Read More |
| Chapter 25 | Jurgis takes the $100 into a saloon and asks for change. The bartender agrees to change the large bill if Jurgis buys a ... Read More |
| Chapter 26 | For his work in the vote rigging scandal, Jurgis saves $300. He keeps his job at the hog-killing factory, however, out o... Read More |
| Chapter 27 | Once again Jurgis is homeless, begging on the streets without a chance of finding a job. He survives by saving his penni... Read More |
| Chapter 28 | During a lunch with Marija, Jurgis learns that she has become hopelessly addicted to morphine—as most of the prostitutes... Read More |
| Chapters 29–31 | Jurgis's reality comes crashing back when the speaker finishes and others take their turn. No one captures his imagina... Read More |
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