Jurgis, Ona and their family moved to the United States to have a better life. They want to live freely and be able to give their children a better life than they had. They had so much faith in America, but not long after they arrived in Chicago, things started to go wrong. Jurgis is blind to the reality of corruption in Packingtown. Sinclair said it very well when he said, “from top to bottom the place was simply a seething cauldron of jealousies and hatreds; there was no loyalty or decency anywhere in it, there was no place for a man to count anything against a dollar” (Sinclair, 50). All the leaders of Packingtown were in a corrupt alliance to trample on anyone and everyone to stay on top because all they cared about was money. They couldn't care less about their workers, forcing everyone who worked in Packingtown to be wage slaves. All workers were also replaceable. Because the rate of immigration was so high, both immigrants and native Chicagoans had difficulty finding work, and if someone lost their job someone new was there to take their place. “They had it all year round