Read the following and explain what does the auther want to express ?
…that here in this huge city, with its stores of heaped-up wealth, human creatures might be hunted down and destroyed the latter part of april jurgis went to see the doctor, and was given a bandage to lace about his ankle, and told that might go back to work [but there was no work for him.] the peculiar bitterness of all this was that jurgis saw so plainly the meaning of it. in the beginning he had been fresh and strong, and he had gotten a job the first day; but now he was second-hand, a damaged article, so to speak, and they did not want him. they had got the best out of him--they had worn him out, with their speeding up and their carelessness, and now they had thrown him away!