- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
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- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
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- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
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- Measure for Measure
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- Much Ado About Nothing
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Jurgis sprains his ankle during his work at the factory. Through no real fault of his own (as Sinclair says, anyone can sprain their ankle), Jurgis is plunged into financial ruin: he's dismissed from his job without pay (why should the factory pay someone who can't work?) and forced to survive without any other source of income.
Sinclair allows the injustice of Jurgis's situation to sink in. Because he's been working at an unsafe plant, he hurts himself. And yet when Jurgis injures himself, the factory throws him out instead of apologizing and offering him pay. The horror of the…