I've been liking The Jungle more than I thought I would. Although it was a bit slow to get into, it's definitely kept me interested now. I think the most prominent literary element may be irony. But I'm not sure. The whole America seeming like such a great place to live and work, and then turning into the worst place imaginable, seems pretty ironic to me. It may have been writen in this manner because that's how Upton Sinclair could get his point across--that the US meat industry is/was terribly messed up.
The tone of The Jungle is pretty grim. Bad things happen to good people, and then continue getting worse and worse and worse. The working conditions are atrocious, not to mention awfully graphic.
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