Immediately at the beginning of this chapter, one of Elzbieta's children dies. The narrator suspects that the death is due to the sausage that he ate the morning of his death, which may have contained tuberculosis. The rest of the family honestly doesn't care that much, as the child was a nuisance, but Elzbieta is crushed.
Jurgis finally gives in and gets a job at a fertilizer plant. The noxious odors he encounters during his work never leave his skin. He oozes fertilizer and phosphates and vomits often because of the horrible odors seeping into him. When he came home, the whole family had to vomit because of it. A fertilizer worker is on the very lowest of the totem pole of workers.
Elzbieta leaves her youngest child at home to take care of the.....
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