The Jungle

Describe the way that Sinclair describes the hands of the men working in the “pickle room”.

Describe the way that Sinclair describes the hands of the men working in the “pickle room”.

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There were the men in the pickle rooms, for instance, where old Antanas had gotten his death; scarce a one of these that had not some spot of horror on his person. Let a man so much as scrape his finger pushing a truck in the pickle rooms, and he might have a sore that would put him out of the world; all the joints in his fingers might be eaten by the acid, one by one.