Reunited Family (Chapter 27)

In this chapter Jurgis doesn't leave town. He can't find a job and begs for food all the time. He finds that Marija is now a prostitute to support the family. She said that if Jurgis had let Ona be a Prostitute that she could have taken care of the family. This is because Jurgis would never have gone to jail, and the never would have been blacklisted. They would have continued their life, and kept making house payments and eventually gotten by.