Common Misconceptions.

One common misconception about the book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is that it is a disgusting book.

You expect it to be filled page after page with verbose and colorful descriptions of what diseased meat looks like, along with everything thing that went into it in the early 20th century.

That is not so!

In fact, far from being a gory, matter-of-fact ramble on sanitation, it is one of THE most depressing books I have ever read.

When you are reading this book, you want to curl up and die just so you can stop reading about how all the other characters curl up and die. NOTHING good happens, everything is a curse in disguise, until the very end, which isn't even the original ending! Sinclair ended up changing it to the hopeful push for socialism we read today from an even MORE depressing ending, because it was too depressing.