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A 5 page essay that examines three books that deal with the American business world-- Upton Sinclair's The Jungle; Lewis Sinclair's Babbitt; and William Heffernan's The Dinosaur Club. These books offer three views of the American business world, and also the way in which Americans would like to see themselves and the American Dream. These novels paint a picture that shows the American Dream gone wrong. Instead of the American dictum of fair play and equality, workers are faced with business managers who are unscrupulous, unprincipled, or simply morally lost. No additional sources cited.
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that shows the American Dream gone wrong. Instead of the American dictum of fair play and equality, workers are faced with business managers who are unscrupulous, unprincipled, or simply morally
lost. In each work, the motivating force in American business is an ever-increasing greed on the part of business executives that excludes all else-fair play, justice, and rewarding hard work-in
order to pay homage to the all-important profit margin. Of the three, Upton Sinclairs The Jungle was undoubtedly the most influential since it alerted the nation to the abuses
that were routinely practiced in the meat packing industry. These abuses were not only unjust, but they often represented a tangible health risk to the public at large. The Jungle
tells the story of an immigrant family from Lithuanian. The history of the family is told in flashbacks that reveal to the reader the familys history, beginning in Lithuania in
the late 1890s. In Lithuania, the family of Jurgis Rudkus felt that they were routinely oppressed and cheated by the upper classes. Agents from the city of Chicago came to
the village and sold the villagers on the idea that America was offering high paying jobs to immigrants. Life in the New World was pictured as giving them a
chance to live as equals with everyone-no upper classes-everyone doing as he or she pleased. Sinclair demonstrates over the course of the novel that the immigrants were basically sold
a lie. After obtaining jobs in a meatpacking plant, family members learn that shop managers can be just as oppressive as the European upper classes. They have to work in
dangerous conditions, processing dangerously contaminated meat. They are swindled at every turn, conned by a real estate agent and forced to make even their children work to make ends meet.
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