Questions:
1) What qualities did Sinclair believe a person must have to succeed in Packingtown?
2) According to the passage, what is the plant owner's main goal.
3) What does Sinclair mean when he says, "...there was no place in it where a man counted for anything against a dollar....?"
Answers:
1) He believed that people who had good character and worked hard would rise and become more successful in Packingtown.
2) The plant owner's main goal was to get as much work as possible out of the workers.
3) He is saying that the owners of the meat packaging plants did not care for anything other than the money, and that they did not have any loyalty or decency towards their workers as long as they brought in the cash they could care less.
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