The Chicago Stockyard Rhetorical Analysis

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Originally, Sinclair wanted to begin a social revolution. He wanted to implement socialism to fix the inhumanity, and corruption of society. He spent seven weeks investigating, cross-examining claims, interviewing, and pretending to be a lowly worker to uncover the truths of the Chicago stockyard. Ultimately, he wished for the conditions of workers to be improved, and their basic needs to be met. He tried to portray the conditions of the stockyard to be “a jungle in which humans lived barely above the level of animals”, as he said. He hoped the public would be compassionate and sympathetic to his character, Jurgis.
Be that as it may, in an attempt to pull at the heartstrings of the public, Sinclair successfully unsettled their stomachs instead.
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