1) Jurgis comes across many different people in Chicago who represent the many different types of people in the city. One of which is Phil Connor, who was Jurgis’ late wife Ona’s depraved boss. He has ties to political power, business, and crime in the city. He is a manifestation of the worse factory bosses put together, and the corruption of capitalism. Mike qq1, the owner of the dump the children search for food in, who worked rigging the elections. Scully is a representation of the political corruptness that thrived within Chicago. Grandmother Majauszkiene is a representation of the countless other people that had been used and then thrown to the side by the factory system. Madame Haupt is a midwife that tries to barter with Jurgis the
